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. 2020 Jan-Feb;53(1):63–68. doi: 10.1590/0100-3984.2018.0042

Table 1.

Causes of isolated hip pain in children.

Type Disorder
Congenital* Hip dysplasia
Infectious Osteomyelitis
  Pyomyositis
  Septic arthritis*
Inflammatory Transient synovitis of the hip*
  'Juvenile inflammatory arthritis
Traumatic/mechanical Epiphysiolysis
  Apophysitis
  Stress fracture
Neoplastic Benign Osteoid osteoma
     Osteochondroma
     Eosinophilic granuloma
     Unicameral bone cyst
     Aneurysmal bone cyst
Malignant Metastases
  Ewing sarcoma
  Leukemia, lymphoma
*

Typically present in children under 10 years of age.

Typically present in older children or adolescents (≥ 10 years of age).

Present in children of any age.