The car accident scene was tragic, the teacher who protected the children sacrificed their life, and Xiao Yu, the younger sister, was fatally injured. How could Shan Shan escape unscathed? Because of this, the doctors must take responsibility for the child and cautiously require her to stay in the hospital for observation.
We often compare children to young saplings. What are the characteristics of these saplings? Their branches break easily, but the skin is intact, making internal fractures hard to discern at first glance.
Children's bones are like this; because their bones have higher flexibility, lower fragility, and thicker periosteum compared to adults, some children exhibit clinical phenomena like sapling branches breaking. This characteristic in pediatric orthopedics is called greenstick fracture and subperiosteal fracture, different from adult fractures, and unique to pediatrics.
