Abstract
In summary, fractures in children and the texture of children's bones are different, and the growth potentiality is great, so that considerable degrees of displacements and shortenings can be corrected in time. Even angulation up to 20 to 30 degrees can be expected to disappear, but rotation deformities are apt to remain. The fact that epiphyses are growth centers makes them danger spots to injury, particularly in the elbow where most exceptions to our general rules occur. Children's bones invariably heal, particularly the long tubular bones. Nonunion is very rare, except when plates or screws have been employed. General principles in the treatment of children's fractures need to be taught to laymen and physicians so that errors of treatment may be avoided.
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