Leg bowing in children
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Leg bowing in children is common and often developmental.
Differential diagnosis
The differential includes:
- developmental bowing
- congenital bowing
- rickets
- scurvy
- Blount disease: tibia vara
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neurofibromatosis type 1
- usually lateral bowing
- skeletal dysplasias
- osteomyelitis
- syphilis: saber shin
- yaws: boomerang tibia
See also
-<li><a href="/articles/scurvy">scurvy</a></li>- +<li><a href="/articles/hypovitaminosis-c-scurvy-1">scurvy</a></li>
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