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Humeral Physeal Injuries Wheeless (Visit this link)
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
most of these injuries are either Salter I or II fractures;
- frx separations of proximal humeral epiphysis occur most often between ages of 11 and 15 years;
- 80% of longitudinal growth of humerus occurs in proximal physis;
- large percentage of growth allows significant remodelling following injuryies of proximal humeral physis;
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