Isolated knee pain as a presentation for proximal femur fracture in paediatrics
Proximal femur fracture in paediatric patients are very rare and can easily be missed especially when the history of trauma is so trivial, and associated with pathological fracture. We report a case of 6-year-old girl with a history of left knee pain following a fall from a height of 2 feet. She was...
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| description | Proximal femur fracture in paediatric patients are very rare and can easily be missed especially when the history of trauma is so trivial, and associated with pathological fracture. We report a case of 6-year-old girl with a history of left knee pain following a fall from a height of 2 feet. She was treated as a soft tissue injury of the left knee as the left knee radiograph was normal. She was reassessed at day 3 of injury with worsening symptoms. Radiograph of the pelvis and left knee revealed a comminuted intertrochanteric fracture of left femur with an underlying bone cyst. We would like to highlight this case report to avoid missing a proximalfemur fracture where a trivial trauma resulted In the presentation of a non-specific knee pain. Femur fracture in peadiatric age group can result in the significant complication of growth such as osteoporosis. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:152372020-09-21T03:53:21Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15237/ Isolated knee pain as a presentation for proximal femur fracture in paediatrics Amirudin Sanip, Ismail MS, Proximal femur fracture in paediatric patients are very rare and can easily be missed especially when the history of trauma is so trivial, and associated with pathological fracture. We report a case of 6-year-old girl with a history of left knee pain following a fall from a height of 2 feet. She was treated as a soft tissue injury of the left knee as the left knee radiograph was normal. She was reassessed at day 3 of injury with worsening symptoms. Radiograph of the pelvis and left knee revealed a comminuted intertrochanteric fracture of left femur with an underlying bone cyst. We would like to highlight this case report to avoid missing a proximalfemur fracture where a trivial trauma resulted In the presentation of a non-specific knee pain. Femur fracture in peadiatric age group can result in the significant complication of growth such as osteoporosis. Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15237/1/28_ms0296_pdf_72245.pdf Amirudin Sanip, and Ismail MS, (2019) Isolated knee pain as a presentation for proximal femur fracture in paediatrics. Medicine & Health, 14 (1). pp. 270-274. ISSN 2289-5728 http://www.medicineandhealthukm.com/toc/14/1 |
| spellingShingle | Amirudin Sanip, Ismail MS, Isolated knee pain as a presentation for proximal femur fracture in paediatrics |
| title | Isolated knee pain as a presentation for proximal femur fracture in paediatrics |
| title_full | Isolated knee pain as a presentation for proximal femur fracture in paediatrics |
| title_fullStr | Isolated knee pain as a presentation for proximal femur fracture in paediatrics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Isolated knee pain as a presentation for proximal femur fracture in paediatrics |
| title_short | Isolated knee pain as a presentation for proximal femur fracture in paediatrics |
| title_sort | isolated knee pain as a presentation for proximal femur fracture in paediatrics |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15237/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15237/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15237/1/28_ms0296_pdf_72245.pdf |