High-Yiled Pediatric Orthopedics: Febrile Child with Limp (Osteomyelitis, Septic Arthritis, Transient Synovitis)

After a brief discussion of different categories of limp in children with emphasis of differentials of antalgic, non-antalgic, traumatic and febrile limp, we focus on septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, transient synovitis and couple other conditions such as acute rheumatic fever & arthropathy of lyme disease as the possible underlying causes of limp in a febrile child.