RESEARCH - Acute and recurrent night leg pain in young children: growing pains

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Rev Med Liege. 2004 Jun;59(6):363-6.

[Acute and recurrent night leg pain in young children: " growing pains " ]

[Article in French]

Kohnen L, Magotteaux J.

CHA Libramont et CHU Sart Tilman.

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.

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