Local complications
Local complications include:
- infection - open fractures may become infected. Closed fractures hardly ever become infected unless they are opened by operation
- delayed and non-union of the fracture
- malunion of the fracture
- growth disturbance - if the fracture crosses the epiphyseal plate
- avascular necrosis
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