Growth Plate and Physeal injuries

Growth Plate and Physeal injuries

Growth Plate or the physis has been divided into four zones: Germinal (Reserve) Proliferative Hypertrophic Provisional Calcification The actively growing cartilage disc is called physis, situated between epiphysis and metaphysics Most commonly injured physeal injury is Phalanges (37%) 4 Zones: The Zone of Resting Cartilage(Germinal) Adjacent to epiphysis Collagen content is higher Collagen fibre orientation= […]

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