Chronic musculoskeletal pain in children: Part I. Initial evaluation

American Family Physician

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-122

  Junnila, Jennifer L ^a   Cartwright, Victoria W ^b  

^a Army Medical Department Center and School   (United States)

^b MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CANCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYPERMOBILITY SYNDROME; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LABORATORY TEST; LIMB PAIN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 33745904723     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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