[Some structural and functional peculiaritis of the growing skeleton and their significance in fracture healing (author's transl)].

The following properties of the growing skeleton are discussed in relation to fracture healing: (1) The pronounced reaction of periosteum and endosteum and their part in the correction of deformities, and the vascular pattern of cortical bone; (2) the microscopical structure and the vascular supply of the growth plate, with reference to their significance in injuries; (3) the involvement of growth plate and growing articular cartilage in the modeling of the end of long bones and in the correction of angular deformitis.