Problem while sync iphone: some contact disappear

Good morning at all,
i have a problem while syncing my iphone with itunes. Itunes is the last release and iphone have the 6.1.2. Last week i connect the iphone to the Mac and, with suprise, i found that some of my new contacs added to my iphone is disappeared! I'm sure i added the only and for the first time to the Iphone and i didn't remove them neither intentionally nor accidentally. Now i disabled autosync to avoid the problem, but someone can help me to solve this? There is some way to recover lost contacs?
Using icloud is not an option because i often go in areas where 3G is missing and i found that icloud messing up a little with this situation.
Thanks in advice for any support!
Regards
Luca

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