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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients Age \< 16 years presenting with a ≥2 mm displaced non-incarcerated medial epicondyle fracture with or without concomitant elbow dislocation and normal ulnar nerve function. * Acute fractures were defined as less than7 days between the date of injury and initiation of treatment Exclusion Criteria: * systemic bone disease * concomitant fracture or injury of the same upper limb requiring operative intervention * Open fractures, incarceration of the fragment inside the joint or ulnar nerve dysfunction require surgery