Toxic synovitis

Toxic Synovitis
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Toxic Synovitis
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Toxic synovitis is a non-traumatic hip pain, which means that it is not caused by an injury. Instead, pain is caused by swelling and inflammation in the hip. Toxic synovitis often follows an upper respiratory infection such as a cold or flu.

Toxic Synovitis -- See Transient Synovitis of the Hip
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Toxic Synovitis
Toxic synovitis of the hip is the most common form of arthritis in children. It appears suddenly, disappears ...
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Toxic synovitis
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Toxins
Toxocariasis (Visceral larva migrans)
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An inflammatory reaction, such as transient or toxic synovitis Opens New Window. This generally occurs after the child has had a cold or other upper respiratory infection. This is the most common cause of hip pain in children.

Irritable hip syndrome (sometimes called toxic synovitis) is a temporary form of arthritis, which tends to affect prepubescent children for unknown reasons. Boys with toxic synovitis outnumber girls four to one.

See also: Synovitis, Arthritis, Injury, Symptom, Rheum