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Irritable Hip as the Inaugural Symptom for Neuroblastoma
- Source :
- Case Reports in Orthopedics, Vol 2018 (2018), Case Reports in Orthopedics
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Hindawi Limited, 2018.
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Abstract
- Case Report. A four-year-old girl presented with fever and a painful limp in the left hip. Pain characteristics and anemia detected in the blood analyses were the first warning signs that the hip process was not standard. Although the primary suspicion was of septic arthritis, a CT scan of the abdomen revealed an adrenal neuroblastoma.Conclusion.The presenting signs of neuroblastoma are commonly atypical. About 25% of presentations are orthopedic and mimic a variety of severe orthopedic conditions. The most important clinical dilemma is distinguishing benign and self-limiting disorders from septic or malignant processes.
- Subjects :
- 030222 orthopedics
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Irritable hip
Anemia
business.industry
Limp
Case Report
General Medicine
Adrenal neuroblastoma
medicine.disease
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
lcsh:RD701-811
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
lcsh:Orthopedic surgery
Neuroblastoma
Orthopedic surgery
medicine
Abdomen
Septic arthritis
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20906757 and 20906749
- Volume :
- 2018
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Case Reports in Orthopedics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....83a38a108ba6ae6cee5816b8582e2cc2