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The patient is a 10-monthold child who presents, with the parents upon referral by the pediatrician, with a history of three days of pain, but no history of trauma.
The child refuses to stand, presumably due to pain, and resists crawling.
View the x-ray taken (Figure 1) and consider what your diagnosis and next steps would be. Resolution of the case is described on the next page.
Clinical Challenge: September, 2007
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