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This answer is incorrect. During the formation of the fracture haematoma blood from broken vessels forms a clot. This is the first stage of fracture healing following an injury.
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c
Fracture haematoma
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This answer is incorrect. During the bone remodelling phase, osteoclasts remodel woven bone into compact bone.
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Bone remodelling
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This answer is incorrect. Fracture necrosis is not a recognised stage of fracture healing.
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Fracture necrosis
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This answer is incorrect. The soft callus consists of fibrocartilage which is later replaced by a hard callus of woven bone.
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Formation of the soft callus
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This answer is correct. During the formation of the hard callus osteoblasts make woven bone which replaces the soft fibrocartilage callus.
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Formation of the hard callus
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Fracture healing
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Musculoskeletal Physiology
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An 8-year-old boy attends the fracture clinic with his father after falling off a swing and sustaining a fracture to his left distal radius 10 days ago.

During which of the following stages of fracture healing is fibrocartilage replaced by woven bone?
a