Differential diagnosis of irritable hip in a child will include all except
Snapping hip The term irritable hip is attached to a well recognized syndrome of transient hip pain and restriction of movement in an otherwise healthy child, generally the symptoms last for 1-2 weeks and tl: 1 en subside spontaneously hence the synonym 'transient synovitis".
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
Snapping hip
Pehe's disease
Tuberculosis of the hip