title: [Acquired pathology of the hip in children].
abstract: Hip pathology is a frequent motive for consultation in the field of paediatrics. The clinical examination and the radio-imagery both play a central role in the diagnostic process. If acute benign synovitis is the principal cause in the child, it remains a diagnosis of exclusion and must not in any case lead to a missed diagnosis of septic arthritis. Other diagnoses should be evoked according to the age of the child: epiphysiolysis, true surgical emergency, primary osteochondritis of the hip, early inflammatory polyarthritidies.
authors: Service de médecine interne Nord Hôpital Victor Provo, Service de chirurgie pédiatrique, B.P. 359 59056 Roubaix. GUYOT.Lille@wanadoo.fr
authors: Marie-Hélène
authors: MH
authors: Guyot-Drouot
authors: Hervé
authors: H
authors: Giard
authors: Catherine
authors: C
authors: Barbier
authors: Françoise
authors: F
authors: Mazingue
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001168:Arthritis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004839:Epiphyses, Slipped / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D010007:Osteochondritis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology