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Differential diagnosis of growing pains in children

Differential diagnosis of growing pains in children
Infection
Viral myositis
Tuberculosis
Syphilis
Trichinosis
Poststreptococcal polymyalgia
Osteomyelitis
Septic arthritis
Metabolic
Osteomalacia (rickets)
Hypervitaminosis A
Scurvy
Gaucher disease
Renal tubular acidosis
Metabolic myopathy
Tumors
Leukemia
Lymphoma
Spinal cord tumors
Bone tumors
Ewing sarcoma
Osteogenic sarcoma
Osteoid osteoma
Metastatic tumors (eg, neuroblastoma)
Trauma
Fractures
Stress fractures
Overuse syndromes
Miscellaneous
Hypermobility syndrome
Rheumatologic disease
Somatization
Fibromyalgia
Intermittent nocturnal leg cramps
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Restless legs
Sickle cell anemia
Osteonecrosis (avascular necrosis)
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
School phobia
Patellofemoral pain syndrome
Data from: Leg Pain. In: Tunnessen WW, Roberts KB. Signs and Symptoms in Pediatrics, 3rd edition, Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 1999. p.633 and Atar D, Lehman WB, Grant AD. Growing pains. Orthop Rev 1991; 20:133.
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