"Mom, Mom! I'm in pain here again..." Xiaoxing, a 10-year-old boy, yelled in his room, sniffling and gasping.
The sleepy-eyed mother came to her son's room in a daze. The child has been crying out about leg pain and foot pain during this time. But Xiaoxing's mother checked carefully, and there was nothing wrong.
"You're going to grow tall. In the middle of the night, the bones have to grow taller, so it hurts a little. It's okay, sleep. Xiaoxing's mother comforted the child.
Xiaoxing's mother, who returned to her bedroom, was about to climb into bed, and her husband spoke: "My son is looking for you again?" What's wrong, are you okay? ”
"Oh, it's okay, I guess it's just lazy and don't want to exercise." He loves to eat so much now, only growing horizontally, not vertically. You see the grandson of Grandma Li's family next door, who is as old as our son. He is taller than our children, and he still exercises in the community every day. Xiaoxing's mother's tone was full of "hate iron is not steel".
"No wonder, I said why did you let my mother supervise Xiaoxing's exercise in the community every day... That wouldn't be a child bumping into it, would it? Xiaoxing's father asked his wife.
"It won't. I looked. There is no bump, nothing bruised. I saw that he walked in a normal posture. Maybe you just want to be lazy. If only he was really tall and had a bone pain. Xiaoxing's mother yawned and prepared to continue sleeping.
Two weeks have passed, and Xiaoxing's mother has always thought that the child wants to be lazy and not exercise. Otherwise, it is growing the body, it is growing pain, and I don't care. But not long after, Xiaoxing said that his legs and feet hurt again.
The mother was a little unhappy at first, how did this child know to be lazy all day long. But when she checked Xiaoxing's right thigh, she suddenly felt that something was wrong. Why is the child's right thigh a little swollen?
At this time, Xiaoxing's mother did not dare to delay, and quickly took the child to the hospital for examination. When he came to the hospital, the doctor asked Xiaojian's mother and child whether they had recently exercised, injured, etc., and then examined the child.
According to Xiaoxing's recollection, he has been suffering from pain in the lower part of his right thigh for 2 weeks. The doctor's expression was surprised: "Why did you come to see it now?" Xiaoxing's mother looked embarrassed, and when she saw her son's aggrieved appearance, she was really distressed in her heart, and she could only hug him.
The doctor enters in the electronic medical record: the patient's right lower thigh is painful, the skin temperature is increased, and the soft tissues are swollen. Several tests were then scheduled.
I thought that the child might have fallen during the exercise, but Xiaoxing's mother took her son to complete X-ray and CT, so she thought that the dust had settled and could go home to see how the doctor diagnosed.
As a result, it backfired... The doctor's expression became more and more serious as he looked at the film: "In this way, you go for an MRI scan." If not, you may want to do an enhancement. Be quick! ”
As soon as she heard this, Xiaoxing's mother was still a little confused, her child's right thigh was a little swollen, why did she go to so many professional examinations? Her worst-case scenario for her child's body was a broken bone. Now depending on the situation, it may be scarier than a fracture ...
According to the imaging manifestations: bone destruction at the epiphysis of the right femoral shaft, and the destruction area breaks through the cortex to form an intramedullary and soft tissue mass; Extensive osteogenic and Codman triangles inside; The periosteum reaction is a radial bone needle-like change.
Doctors consider malignant bone tumors, which are mainly distinguished between osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma. Considering the age of the child and the site of onset, the final diagnosis was that Xiaoxing suffered from osteogenic osteosarcoma.
As soon as she heard the news, Xiaoxing's mother couldn't accept it at all. His own child is only so young, how did he get bone cancer? Is it inherited in your own family? Or is it to blame mom for not taking good care of it?
What is osteosarcoma? As one of the most common malignancies, it is associated with osteocyte mutations. After the mutation, tumor cells overgrow and metastasize at a distance, which is extremely harmful. Osteosarcoma is also more "favorable" for teenagers. So parents should not take it lightly.
Bone cancer is a highly malignant disease. And once you have this disease, it is difficult to treat. Therefore, parents must pay attention to the physical condition of their children in normal times, and once they find that something is wrong, they must take their children to the hospital for examination and treatment in time.
The child's bones hurt in the middle of the night, it must be "growing pain"?
In fact, many children grow rapidly during adolescence, sometimes causing growth pain. Many parents think that it is a happy thing that their children have growing pains.
Some parents mistake tumor pain for "growing pain" when they attack at night. At the time of discovery, the child's bone cancer had progressed to an intermediate or advanced stage.
How to distinguish growing pain from bone cancer?
Growing pains tend to appear around the knee joint or on the front of the calf. And it can often be relieved by medication or physical therapy, such as a warm compress.
The pain of early bone cancer is difficult to relieve with ordinary physical methods. At first, it may only be local swelling, lumps, lump deformities, etc., until pathological fractures and low back pain may occur in the later stage.
Dr.X said
It is best for parents to take their children to the hospital for a check-up. It is recommended that parents pay more attention to their children's physical health in life, and if they find any abnormalities, take their children to the hospital for examination in time.