Managing children with acute non-traumatic limp: The utility of clinical findings, laboratory inflammatory markers and X-rays: Paediatric Emergency Medicine

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-142

  Reed, Lucy ^b   Baskett, Abby ^c   Watkins, Nicholas ^a  

^a ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c STARSHIP CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Hip; Inflammatory marker; Limp; Paediatric; X ray

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE NON TRAUMATIC LIMP; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; GAIT DISORDER; HIP PAIN; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X RAY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 65349168876     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2008.01144.x     Document Type: Article

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