Orthopedics · Orthopedics / Sports medicine
Little League shoulder syndrome
also: Proximal humeral epiphysitis
Proximal humeral physeal stress injury in young throwers.
- Specialty
- Orthopedics
- Subspecialty
- Orthopedics / Sports medicine
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected, male predominance; Female: affected; Children: yes, 11–16 years
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Proximal humeral epiphysitis
Etiology & mechanism
Repetitive rotational stress on the growth plate.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (3)
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Shares symptoms with
None.
Shares genes with
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