Abstract
We studied about the 26 babies with 27 birth fractures who had visited our hospital between 1980 and 1988.
These fractures consisted of 22 clavicular fractures (21 babies), 3 humeral shaft fractures (3 babies), and 2 femoral shaft fractures (2 babies).
The study of these fractures revealed that: (1) the prognoses were very good in all cases due to the correction of the deformity by growth, (2) the main cause of birth fractures seemed to be the difficult labor, and (3) to treat the clavicular fracture, only the rest of the local lesion is needed, and to treat the humeral and the femoral shaft fracture the traction is effective in minimizing the displacement.
