Archive Copy: - 1999 Annual Meeting Scientific Program. Proximal Humerus Fractures: An Unsolved Fracture?

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;