Abstract
The healing of a fracture is one of the most remarkable ‘repair jobs’ that the human body is capable of carrying out. Not only does it lay down new tissue to make non-elastic scar tissue, but it also actually attempts and succeeds to reproduce the normal architecture of the bone in question. Eventually, even in a displaced fracture that has not been aligned end-to-end, a new, continuous, medullary cavity will be produced.
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Betts-Symonds, G.W. (1984). Healing of Fractures. In: Fracture. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17534-5_2
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