Lower extremity (bone) |
Osteomyelitis |
Fracture, including occult fracture (child abuse) and stress fracture |
Traction apophysitis |
Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease (inferior patella) |
Sever disease (calcaneus) |
Osgood-Schlatter disease (tibial tuberosity) |
Iselin disease (base of the 5th metatarsal) |
Osteochondrosis |
Freiberg disease (head of the 2nd metatarsal) |
Köhler disease (navicular bone of the foot) |
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis |
Idiopathic avascular necrosis of the hip (Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease) |
Benign and malignant tumors |
Leukemia |
Metastatic neuroblastoma |
Osteogenic sarcoma |
Ewing sarcoma |
Osteoid osteoma |
Limb length discrepancy |
Pathologic varus (bow legs) |
Pathologic valgus (knock knees) |
Tarsal coalition |
Torsional deformities |
Vasoocclusive crisis (sickle cell disease) |
Lower extremity (joint) |
Transient synovitis of the hip |
Bacterial (septic) arthritis |
Lyme arthritis (endemic regions) |
Osteochondritis dissecans |
Developmental dysplasia of the hip |
Oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and other rheumatic diseases (eg, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic JIA) |
Immunoglobulin A vasculitis (Henoch-Schönlein purpura) |
Serum sickness and serum sickness-like reactions |
Reactive arthritis |
Acute rheumatic fever |
Joint hypermobility syndrome |
Hemarthrosis (causes include trauma, hemophilia, and, rarely, pigmented villonodular synovitis) |