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This study aimed to establish categories and evaluate sites of hand burn surface area in order to facilitate comparison of hand burns. Sixteen burns involving the hand and wrist among 14 patients referred to a burns center were retrospectively categorized by burn mechanism, burn thickness, and hand burn surface area. The burn surface area in the clinical record was compared with that calculated by the thumbprint method and the rule of thumb diagram. Burn surface area in the clinical record was either \u201c1%\u201d or \u201c&amp;lt;1%\u201d in 9 of 16 cases. In contrast, the surface area was &amp;lt;1 thumbprint (T) in six burns, two were between 1 and 5T, three were 5 to 10T, two were 10 to 20T, two were 20 to 50T, and one was greater than 50T. The median thumbprint burn surface area was 1.5T (range 0.20\u201380T), which corresponds to 0.05% TBSA. 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