| The first eight or nine dorsal vertebral apophyses may be left on either the right or the left half-carcase. |
| Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to avulsion injuries because of the inherent weakness of the apophyses. |
| They are most commonly seen affecting the growing apophyses of adolescents, and are often missed on initial presentation. |
| The latter are characterized by sheet-like apophyses that interfinger with host rocks. |
| The most common fractures occur in the long bone diaphyses, the spine and the apophyses. |
| Along the southern margin of the intrusion at Sogneskollen, granodiorite apophyses netvein the host rocks. |
