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A: Sixty-three-year-old female presented with a hump-nosed viper bite to the right small finger and developed severe local necrosis of the distal phalanx and compartment syndrome involving the forearm. She was managed by decompression fasciotomy, followed by amputation of the two distal phalanxes of the right small finger. B: The same patient after four years with lost phalanxes and fasciotomy scar.
