Synostosis between manubrium and body of the sternum in whites and negroes

✍ Scribed by Mildred Trotter

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1934
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 139 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9483
• DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330180326

✦ Synopsis

The union of the manubrium with the body of the sternum usually remains throughout life a synchondrosis (synchondrosis sternalis superior), but has been observed with variable incidence to be a synostosis. The question of whether the replacement of the cartilage by bone is correlated with advancing age or whether the type of union is determined during the growth period has been answered by Fick ( '04), Testut ('11) and others, but without unanimity. More recently, van Gelderen, interested in determining the amount of movement permitted between the parts of the sternum, made observa-