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Ankara Universitesi Veteriner Fakultesi Dergisi, vol.60, no.2, pp.109-116, 2013 (SCI-Expanded)
Material of this study were 42 cases (26 cats and 16 dogs) of different breed, age and sex which were brought to Ankara University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Clinic of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and diagnosis of the growth plate fracture of long bones of extremities were made. Thirty of 42 cases were distal femoral, 9 distal humeral, 5 distal tibial, 4 distal radial, 2 proksimal tibial and 1 distal ulnar fractures (multiple fractures seen in some of the cases were also included to these values). Twenty four of these cases were Type I, 15 were type II, 4 were type III and 4 were Salter-Harris type IV fractures (1 avulsion fracture was also noted and 3 old cases could not be classified). Four cases were treated conservatively, 30 fractures were treated by cross pin technique, 4 with single pin application, 2 with intramedullary pin application, 2 with application of 2 parallel Kirschner wires, 2 with dynamic intramedullary cross pin technique and 1 was treated with paired convergent pin technique.