Evaluation of hand injury severity

Hand Trauma Severity Scale (HTSS) was created on the basis of our study on 1199 patients who were treated because of the hand injuries in the Second Chair of Surgery Jagiellonian University in Krakow in years 1987-2000. (last examination in 2010, follow-up: 11 to 23 years, mean follow-up: 16 years). Hand Trauma Severity Scale (HTSS) has been created based on We looked at the range of injury, likely total length of treatment, final functional result and possible amount of posttraumatic disability. Created HTSS scale was compared to Hand Injury Severity Score (HISS) and their statistically significant correlation (p Language: pl