Evaluation of a limping child

Current Paediatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-22

  Beresford, M W ^a   Cleary, A G ^a  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gait; Limping; Musculoskeletal

Indexed keywords

MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ANAMNESIS; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BONE CANCER; BONE DISEASE; BONE DYSPLASIA; CALCANEUS; CHILD; CHONDROLYSIS; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISKITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMUR MALFORMATION; FLATFOOT; FOOT; FOREIGN BODY; FRACTURE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMOPHILIA; HIP; HIP DISEASE; HIP DYSPLASIA; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; JOINT FUNCTION; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LABORATORY TEST; LEG; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHADENITIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYOSITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS; OSTEOCHONDROMA; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATELLA CHONDROMALACIA; PERTHES DISEASE; PES EQUINOVARUS; PES EQUINUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; REVIEW; RICKETS; SAPHO SYNDROME; SCINTISCANNING; SEPSIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; STRESS FRACTURE; SYMPTOM; SYNOVITIS; VALGUS KNEE; VARIANCE; X RAY FILM;

EID: 11844260069     PISSN: 09575839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cupe.2004.10.004     Document Type: Article

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