Abstract
This is a 14-month-old boy with acute onset of left lower extremity non-weightbearing. He is afebrile, has an ESR of 31, and a normal WBC. There is no history of trauma. His parents had taken him camping in New Hampshire two months earlier. Radiographs revealed a knee joint effusion, but were otherwise normal (not shown).
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(2007). Case 47. In: Pediatric and Adolescent Musculoskeletal MRI. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38325-5_47
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