Fractures of the acromion in young children and a description of a variant in acromial ossification which may mimic a fracture.

We report on six children, from 2 to 19 months old, with a defect across the root of the acromion (basiacromion) diagnosed as a fracture in four and as an anatomical variant (separate ossification center for the lateral half of the basiacromion) in the other two.