Leg bowing in children
Dr Yuranga Weerakkody and Dr Frank Gaillard et al.
Leg bowing in children is common, and is often developmental. The differential includes:
- developmental bowing
- congenital bowing
- rickets
- scurvy
- Blount disease - tibia vara
-
neurofibromatosis type 1
- usually lateral bowing
- skeletal dysplasias
- osteomyelitis
- syphilis : saber shin
- yaws : boomerang tibia

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