patients underwent plate fixation, and twenty-five were treated nonoperatively with a sling or figure-of-eight brace. Despite beginning with a greater amount of displacement and shortening, the operative group appeared to heal faster and returned to unrestricted activity sooner. While no nonunions occurred, five of the twenty-five patients in the nonoperative group had symptomatic malunion, with four of the five eventually undergoing corrective osteotomy. Other retrospective studies have demonstrated good outcomes of surgical fixation of displaced fractures in adolescent patients