Summay

Abstract

The purpose of our book is to provide the reader with basic information and to impress upon him that a fracture of the growing skeleton is not the same as a fracture in an adult. No textbook of orthopedic surgery can replace clinical training. The only way to gain experience is to witness success and failure in the course of one’s undergraduate and postgraduate training and in clinical practice. I feel it is appropriate to end this book with a summary of the pathophysiology of fractures in children and its practical consequences.