Table 1.

Common causes for hip pain in the paediatric patient.

Mechanical	Vascular	Infectious	Autoimmune	Oncologic	Referred
Fracture/dislocation	Legg‐Calve‐Perthes disease (LCP)	Septic arthritis	Transient synovitis	Benign – fibrous dysplasia, simple/aneurysmal bone cyst	Appendicitis
Slipped femoral capital epiphysis (scfe)	Avascular necrosis (avn)	Osteomyelitis	Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (jia)	Malignant – osteosarcoma, Ewing's	Psoas abscess Pyomyositis
Haemarthrosis	Sickle cell disease				Psoas haemorrhage