What is it about?
Neuroblastoma is a serious and yet a rare disorder that presents in childhood. It's more common presentations include a mass in abdomen and systemic symptoms. Rarely it may metastasize to bone and present as a limp. This is a case series of this rare presentation.
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Why is it important?
It is important to keep this condition in the back of one's mind if dealing with a limping child (usually acute onset) especially if the characteristic clinical features of more common conditions do not add up.
Perspectives
Anyone dealing with a limping child should have a list of differential diagnosis in their mind which can then be systematically eliminated with a battery of escalating blood tests and imaging in a sequential manner.
Dr Farokh Wadia
Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre
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This page is a summary of: Neuroblastoma, Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, June 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health,
DOI: 10.1097/bpo.0b013e318279c636.
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