A 3-Year-Old Girl With Fever and a Limp Medscape CME

Description: Case presentation and discussion of psoas abscess
A 3-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department (ED) by her parents with a fever and refusal to walk secondary to pain in her right leg. The pain is associated with thigh and back pain on the same side as the limp. The day before presentation, the child's mother picked her up from her babysitter, where she noticed that the child was irritable and crying. At that time, the child was pointing at and trying to touch her back, and she was walking with a noticeable limp.
Setshedi Makwinja, MD; Ben Numpang, MD; Benjamin R. Aubey, MD, MPH eMedicine Case Presentations CME © 2008