[Dilemmas in the classification of foot injuries caused by land mines]

In international classification of injuries, very often there are some specific conditions that are not clearly defined. War initiated that about specific conditions before all injuries a discussion in term of more correct presentation through the code is being made. Very often, some conditions in international classification are being led as INSUFFICIENTLY DEFINED or UNMARKED PART. When we have present large destruction due to wounding with projectiles of high kinetic energy (initial velocity), and especially stepping on land-mines, we have the situations that can not be correctly defined. The amount of these injuries which are about to follow in the future period authors will declare in few examples which have been surgically treated in Traumatological Clinic in Sarajevo. All injuries were result of stepping on land-mines and in all cases it was about foot. The stated injuries we were not able to code as amputations because the distal part of the injury was vascularized, later on we found out that there are possibilities of surgical reconstruction in meaning of functional foot, since we do not have open (explosive) fracture here. May-be, as a clinical formulation or for initial observation a more appropriate name is (term analogue in surgery of other regions beside limbs) INTERCALARY amputation of limbs. The same one could be moved from deficiency to a complete lack which surely must be linked to its causality.