Growing pains
- 1 February 1976
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine
- Vol. 59 (2) , 66-72
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1976.11714268
Abstract
What seem to be growing pains could be a manifestation of a serious disease—juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, even leukemia. If results of pertinent laboratory tests are normal, it still takes months of close observation before a diagnosis of growing pains can be made with certainty.Keywords
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