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DDx Hip Pain
Differential Diagnosis of Unilateral Hip Pain

Congenital
- congenital coxa vara (probably not painful until later)
- proximal femoral focal deficiency

Traumatic
- Slip capital femoral epiphysis
- Femoral neck, intertrochanteric fracture or stress fracture
- LT or GT avulsions, ASIS avulsion
- Ischial, pubic, ilium fractures

Developmental
- dislocation/dysplasia (probably not painful quite as yet, but may be)
- developmental coxa vara
- idiopathic chondrolysis

Vascular
- Perthes disease
- post-traumatic
- sickle cell, Gaucher�s, or idiopathic osteonecrosis

Inflammatory
- toxic synovitis, bursitis, osteitis
- juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- other seronegative spondyloarthropathies - Reiters, psoriatic, ank spond

Neoplastic
- benign - UBC, ABC, EG, chondroblastoma, osteoid osteoma, osteoblastoma, fibrous dysplasia, GCT (abit young for this)
- malignant - ostosarcoma, Ewings, leukemia/lymphoma

Infectious
- septic arthritis
- proximal femoral osteomyelitis
- psoas abscess

Metabolic - rickets??