RT Book, Section
A1 Blacksin, Marcia F.
A1 Wenokor, Cornelia
A2 Tehranzadeh, Jamshid
SR Print(0)
ID 1181068994
T1 Pediatric Skeletal Trauma
T2 Basic Musculoskeletal Imaging, 2e
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260459975
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1181068994
RD 2024/04/25
AB Pediatric  bones  are  softer  than  adult  bones  as  they  are  more  porous  and  less  well  mineralized.  There  are  distinct  anatomic  differences  between  the  pediatric  and  adult  bone,  and  a  nomenclature  has  evolved  to  identify  the  fractures  and  the  different  regions  of  the  pediatric  bone  affected  (Figure  5-1).  Pediatric  bones  demonstrate  a  physis  or  growth  plate,  seen  as  a  lucency  between  the  flared  metaphyseal  region  of  the  bone  and  the  growth  center  or  epiphysis.  The  shaft  is  called  the  diaphysis.  Pediatric  bones  grow  in  length  through  endochondral  ossification  at  the  metaphyseal  edge.  The  bone  also  grows  in  width  across  the  diaphyseal  aspect  of  the  bone  through  membranous  ossification.  Healing  of  fractures  in  pediatric  patients  is  more  rapid  than  seen  in  adults.