Question 141 · LEK · Growing pains
Idiopathic musculoskeletal disorder affecting children, often referred to as body growth pain, is the reason for visiting a pediatrician. Which symptoms allow to make such a diagnosis?
- A. abnormal walk, pains occur daily, normal laboratory test results.
- B. normal walk, pains always occur in the morning, normal laboratory test results.
- C. normal walk, knee joint edemas occur, normal laboratory test results.
- D. normal walk, pains never occur in the morning, normal laboratory test results.
- E. pains accompanied by knee joint edemas appear every day, abnormal laboratory test results.
Hint
Benign growing pains have a characteristic timing during the day and leave gait and test results unaffected.
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