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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
*It can be difficult to differentiate hip from knee pain in children | |||
==Clinical Features== | ==Clinical Features== | ||
== Differential Diagnosis== | == Differential Diagnosis== | ||
Revision as of 04:15, 7 June 2015
Background
- It can be difficult to differentiate hip from knee pain in children
Clinical Features
Differential Diagnosis
Pediatric limp
Hip Related
- Acute rheumatic fever
- Developmental dysplasia of hip
- Femur fracture
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
- Septic arthritis of the hip (peds)
- Lyme disease arthritis
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Transient (toxic) synovitis
- Osteosarcoma
Other Causes of Limping
- Developmental dysplasia
- Fracture
- Toddler's fracture
- Tillaux fracture, adolescent
- Neoplasm:
- Leukemia
- Ewings
- Osteogenic sarcoma
- Metastatic neuroblastoma
- Osteomyelitis
- Myositis
- Other:
Diagnosis
- X-ray hip, knee
- Consider CBC, ESR
- Consider hip US (vs CT)