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Changes in the Growth Plate

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  • since blood supply to growth plate comes from epiphyseal side, two ischemic episodes also produce ischemic changes in growth plate;
  • cartilage columns become distorted with some loss of their cellular components;
               

    • they do not undergoe normal ossification, which results in excess of calcified cartilage in the primary trabecular bone