[Compensation for disordered functions and the problems of rehabilitative treatment of disabled veterans of World War II who suffered gunshot wounds of the upper extrememities].

The data of dynamic observations and clincal examination of 128 invalids of the Great Patriotic War having gunshot wounds of the upper extremities after 20 years and longer evidence considerable improvement of the wounded extremity function and a reduced degree of disability in the late period due to compensatory phenomena under the influence of active labour life.