title: [Traumatic bone deformation in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood--pathomechanics and review of the literature].
abstract: Stresses applied to bones can cause plastic deformation, or bowing fractures; the bone is deformed by axial compression in children and by slow bending stress, i.e. three-point bending from the side, in young adults. Biomechanical properties of the bone and its plastic and elastic behaviour are discussed. We present a 14-year-old boy with a bowing fracture of the fifth metacarpal bone.
authors.affiliation: Unfallkrankenhaus Wien Meidling der AUVA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Höcker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002648:Child; D004548:Elasticity; D005260:Female; D017102:Fracture Healing / Q000502:physiology*; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008349:Manipulation, Orthopedic; D008663:Metacarpus / Q000293:injuries / Q000503:physiopathology; D016474:Weight-Bearing / Q000502:physiology*