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Osteonecrosis of the hip after short courses of oral and inhaled steroids in a child with an increased number of glucocorticoid receptors

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We report an unusual case of osteonecrosis of the femoral head associated with recurrent myopathy and bone abnormalities in a two-year-old girl, in whom symptoms occurred after a ten-day course of oral betamethasone for infectious wheezy bronchitis, and eventually recurred and were worsened by topical treatment; a hypersensitivity to glucocorticoids is hypothesised.

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  1. Department of Reproductive and Developmental Science and IRCCS, Istituto per I’Infanzia Burlo Garofolo, Clinica Pediatrica, Trieste, Italy

    Ilenia Drigo, Alessia Saccari, Egidio Barbi, Fiora Bartoli & Alessandro Ventura

  2. Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri n°7, 34127, Trieste, Italy

    Ilenia Drigo & Giuliana Decorti

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Drigo, I., Saccari, A., Barbi, E. et al. Osteonecrosis of the hip after short courses of oral and inhaled steroids in a child with an increased number of glucocorticoid receptors. Eur J Pediatr 165, 913–915 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-006-0197-x

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