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Femur fracture (peds)
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For adult patients see Femur fracture
Contents
Background
Clinical Features
- History of trauma
- Pain, point tenderness, deformity
Differential Diagnosis
Femur fractures
Proximal
- Intracapsular
- Extracapsular
Shaft
- Mid-shaft femur fracture (all subtrochanteric)
Pediatric hip pain
- Septic arthritis of the hip (peds)
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
- Transient (toxic) synovitis
- Acute rheumatic fever
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Developmental dysplasia of hip
- Femur fracture
