The Possibilities of Eliminating Premature Partial Closure of an Epiphyseal Plate Caused by Trauma or Disease

Abstract

The phenomenon of a traumatic defect in an epiphyseal plate being filled out by bone tissue if there is simultaneous mechanical injury to both adjacent metaphyseal and epiphyseal bone was described by Novt-Josserand in 1894.The clinical importance of the post-traumatic formation of bony bridges between the epiphysis and the metaphysis in