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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Leg Length Discrepancies
CONGENITAL
• Proximal femoral local deficiency
• Coxa vara
• Hemiatrophy-hemihypertrophy (anisomelia)
• Development dysplasia of the hip
DEVELOPMENTAL
• Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD)
NEUROMUSCULAR
• Polio
• Cerebral palsy (hemiplegia)
INFECTIOUS
• Pyogenic osteomyelitis with physeal damage
TRAUMA
• Physeal injury with premature closure
• Overgrowth
• Malunion (shortening)
TUMOR
• Physeal destruction
• Radiation-induced physeal injury
• Overgrowth
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