[Current problems of treatment of mine explosion wounds]

On the basis of their many-years experiences in the clinic of field surgery with wounded having mine explosion pathology during the Afghan war and military operations in the North Caucasus the authors discuss the specificity of terminology, diagnosis and surgical treatment of mine-explosion wounds and traumas. The article presents statistical data concerned with the results of treatment of patients with mine-explosion wounds and explosion traumas in the North Caucasus (1994-1996), where the mine-explosion pathology made up 15% in the structure of military surgical traumas, frequency of complications was 70%, total lethality--5.2%.