ABSTRACT
The clavicle is a truly eloquent bone. It has a unique shape and is the only long bone in the body to form via intramembranous ossification. It is the first bone to ossify and the last to stop growing. It is the only diarthrodial link between the upper extremity and the rest of the axial skeleton. Even Codman noted that ‘‘it seems to me that the clavicle is one of man’s greatest skeletal inheritances’’ in that it sets us off from other animals. It is the most commonly fractured bone in childhood and accounts for about 15% of all fractures and 44% of upper extremity fractures.
