Groin Pain Differential Diagnoses
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Adult
- Groin muscle pull
- Sports hernia
- Hip osteoarthritis
- Labral tear
- Inguinal hernia
- Hip stress fracture
- Osteitis pubis
- Distal abdominal rectus strain
- Adductor longus rupture
- Hip osteonecrosis (glucocorticoid use)
- Hip synovitis
- Hip septic arthritis
Paediatric
- Infectious
- Septic arthritis of the hip
- Septic arthritis of the sacroiliac joint
- Lyme disease
- Osteomyelitis of femoral head or pelvis
- Psoas abscess
- Appendicitis or abdominal/pelvic abscess
- Inflammatory
- Transient synovitis
- Systemic arthritis
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (rare as isolated hip pain)
- Kawasaki disease
- Infectious/post-infectious
- Idiopathic chondrolysis of the hip
- Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis
- Mechanical/orthopedic
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)
- Avascular necrosis
- Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
- Secondary avascular necrosis
- Femoral stress fracture
- Muscular strain
- Neoplastic/infiltrative
- Osetoid osteoma
- Leukemia
- Solid Tumor, primary or metastatic
- Pigmented villonodular synovitis
- Other
- Sickle cell pain crisis
