[Experience with the surgical management of childhood fractures and epiphyseal injuries].

Authors analyse 1792 fractures in children, treated during 10 years in their Department and distributed in age groups. They take the part of conservative treatment of the majority, about two third, of fractures in childhood. They consider as operative indication certain forms of epiphyseal injuries, the dislocated intraarticular fractures, the unstable fractures, certain cases of polytrauma and the open fractures.