A fracture in the metaphysics of a long bone, in response to excessive compression loading to one side of the bone; the compressed cortex buckles and the opposite cortex is pulled away from the physis. (also called Buckle fracture)
A. torus fracture
B. depressed fracture
C. displaced fracture
D. overriding fracture
Answer: A. torus fracture
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