The limping child

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 129-137

  Kim, Michael K ^a,b   Karpas, Anna ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MS #677 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGE; ANAMNESIS; ARTHROCENTESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BONE CANCER; CHILD; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; GAIT DISORDER; HIP DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERTHES DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 0036620197     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/epem.2002.126756     Document Type: Article

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