TY - JOUR
KW - Female
KW - Hand Injuries
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Nepal
KW - Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
KW - Sensation Disorders
AU - Soares D
AU - Desar N
AB - <p>This study assessed the causes, duration and site of hand wounds seen among patients in order to try and improve the delivery of self-care teaching to patients with anaesthetic hands. Seventy-seven patients with 102 affected hand surfaces were assessed. The commonest cause was a burn from a tea glass. The average duration of the wound was 2 weeks. Most patients had a single current wound and 62% of wounds were on the palmar surface.</p>
BT - Leprosy review
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7500820?dopt=Abstract
CN - SOARES1995
DA - 1995 Sep
DO - 10.5935/0305-7518.19950027
IS - 3
J2 - Lepr Rev
LA - eng
N2 - <p>This study assessed the causes, duration and site of hand wounds seen among patients in order to try and improve the delivery of self-care teaching to patients with anaesthetic hands. Seventy-seven patients with 102 affected hand surfaces were assessed. The commonest cause was a burn from a tea glass. The average duration of the wound was 2 weeks. Most patients had a single current wound and 62% of wounds were on the palmar surface.</p>
PY - 1995
SP - 235
EP - 8
T2 - Leprosy review
TI - Hand wounds in leprosy patients.
UR - http://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1995/v66n3/pdf/v66n3a08.pdf
VL - 66
SN - 0305-7518
ER -