Gusak V K, Anishchenko L G, Speranskiĭ I I, Bogoslavskaia S R, Lavrukhin Iu N, Ablitsov V F
Klin Khir (1962). 1990(3):22-3.
At the burn centre in Donetsk, from 1979 to 1988, 236 sufferers with a III-IV degree frostbite of the extremities were treated. Operated on were 189 patients, who underwent necrectomy, amputation of the extremity and different types of skin plasty. Of these patients, 49.8% were recognized as invalids. After 1-10 years, all the patients after a III-IV degree frostbite of the extremities make complaints, require different types of treatment, 38.9%--the operative one. For timely and qualitative rehabilitation of this category of the sufferers, their prophylactic medical examination is necessary.
