Gennadiy Samoylenko
The unfolding of the military-social conflict in the South-
East of Ukraine forced domestic medicine to face a new
type of mass injuries, and surgical treatment of extensive
soft tissue defects, as a complex problem, regained its relevance.
In a comparative aspect, we studied the treatment results
in 226 patients: the main group was 116 victims with
combined burns and shrapnel wounds (110 adults, average
age 39.72 ± 5.81years, and 6 children), 109 were a
civilians. Comparison group: 63 patients with thermomechanical
burns (average age (32.27 ± 4.11) years) treated
in peacetime.