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Review for the generalist: evaluation of pediatric foot and ankle pain

Foot and ankle pain is common in children and adolescents. Problems are usually related to skeletal maturity and are fairly specific to the age of the child. Evaluation and management is challenging and requires a thorough history and physical exam, and understanding of the pediatric skeleton. This...

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Autor principal: Houghton, Kristin M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18400098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-6-6
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description Foot and ankle pain is common in children and adolescents. Problems are usually related to skeletal maturity and are fairly specific to the age of the child. Evaluation and management is challenging and requires a thorough history and physical exam, and understanding of the pediatric skeleton. This article will review common causes of foot and ankle pain in the pediatric population.
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spelling pubmed-23230002008-04-18 Review for the generalist: evaluation of pediatric foot and ankle pain Houghton, Kristin M Pediatr Rheumatol Online J Review Foot and ankle pain is common in children and adolescents. Problems are usually related to skeletal maturity and are fairly specific to the age of the child. Evaluation and management is challenging and requires a thorough history and physical exam, and understanding of the pediatric skeleton. This article will review common causes of foot and ankle pain in the pediatric population. BioMed Central 2008-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2323000/ /pubmed/18400098 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-6-6 Text en Copyright © 2008 Houghton; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Review for the generalist: evaluation of pediatric foot and ankle pain
title_full Review for the generalist: evaluation of pediatric foot and ankle pain
title_fullStr Review for the generalist: evaluation of pediatric foot and ankle pain
title_full_unstemmed Review for the generalist: evaluation of pediatric foot and ankle pain
title_short Review for the generalist: evaluation of pediatric foot and ankle pain
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18400098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-6-6
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