SKELETAL TRAUMA:
DIAGRAM: Depicts Salter-Harris fracture (epiphyseal fracture)
Type 1 -- Pure epiphyseal separation
Type 2 -- Fragment from metaphysis with displacement of epiphysis
Type 3 -- Fracture runs vertically through the epiphysis and the growth
plate
Type 4 -- A vertical fracture extending through the epiphysis, growth
plate and into the metaphysis
Type 5 -- Crushing injury to epiphysis and plate
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