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This case report discusses a diagnostically challenging case of a 14-year-old boy presenting with an atraumatic painful limp and pyrexia
Abstract:
The child who presents with fever, limp and hip pain will often undergo multiple diagnostic procedures before a definitive diagnosis is made. We describe a diagnostically challenging case of a 14-year-old boy presenting with an atraumatic painful limp and pyrexia. Eventually the diagnosis of obturator internus muscle abscess with associated ischial osteomyelitis was made. Of the 19 more...
International Classification:
Other - Diagnostically challenging case
Categories:
atraumatic painful limp
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Acta Orthop Belg,
Vol: 71 Page: 361-5 June 2005
J. Street; B. Lenehan; D. Mulcahy; A. McGuinness
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