Abstract
ANY consideration of injury to the clavicle must take into account certain fundamentals. In the first place, absence of the clavicle is not incompatible with normal function of the shoulder girdle. Fitchet,1 in a comprehensive study of cleidocranial dysostosis, found almost no impairment of function either in his case or in those reported in the literature. Some of these patients were not aware of the fact that large portions of their clavicles were absent. Gurd2 has called attention to surplus parts of the skeleton including the clavicle. Urist,3 in his studies on injuries of the acromioclavicular joint, came to the . . .
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