title: [Acute and recurrent night leg pain in young children: "growing pains"].
abstract: Acute nocturnal and recurrent pain of the limb in children or "growing pains" constitute a poorly known pathological entity. Growing pains occur in 20% of children aged 2 to 12. The diagnosis is made after ruling out all organic pathology: inflammatory, infectious, post-infectious, traumatic, metabolic, tumoral, vascular, hematologic, orthopaedic and benign pathology of children. The treatment requires analgesics and soft massage.
authors.affiliation: CHA Libramont et CHU Sart Tilman.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kohnen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Magotteaux
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*