The Fractures in the Childhood

Abstract

This paper reports a study of 66 fractures of long bones in children treated at Miyazaki Prefectural Hospital, Miyazaki, during the five years from 1967 to 1971.
The results were as follows.
1) The functions of the injured extremities were all. normal.
2) The angular deformities of the fractured bone in less than 20 degree could undergo the spontaneous correction.
3) Generally accepted that up to 1.5 centimeters overlap of the fragment is desirable, however we do not completely agree with it, because overgrowth of the fractured bone was not so frequent in our cases.