Because in some smaller bones in the body e.g. the foot, the bone is so well supported by surrounding soft tissue a fracture is not visible on X-Ray. It is only weeks later when the fracture has calcified and begun to repair does the extra bone that is produced in healing become visible and hence it can be diagnosed. Another example bone in the hand is the scaphoid bone.
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