title: [A boy with a painful upper leg].
abstract: A 13-year-old boy came to the Emergency Department with a Salter Harris type 1 epiphysiolysis of the distal femur. These fractures can be treated with a closed reduction and possible fixation. They cause a growth disturbance in 65 % of dislocated cases and therefore should be clinically evaluated until skeletal maturity.
authors.affiliation: Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, afd. Orthopedie, Groningen, the Netherlands. drjkempink@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Dagmar R J
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Kempink
authors.forename: Elgun V C M
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Zeegers
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001846:Bone Development / Q000502:physiology*; D004838:Epiphyses / Q000293:injuries*; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male