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Pietermuis
Emergency Medicine Resident
A 32-year-old man held onto an oil-pressured tube which exploded in his hand. All his fingers were crushed and partly amputated. The structures of his hand — blood vessels, nerves, tendons, and bones — were so damaged that this man had his hand amputated.
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