Hip pain (peds)
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Background
- It can be difficult to differentiate hip from knee pain in children
Clinical Features
Differential Diagnosis
Pediatric hip pain
- 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
Diagnosis
- X-ray hip, knee
- Consider CBC, ESR
- Consider hip US (vs CT)