« Thigh splints » ou arrachement diaphysaire des muscles adducteurs

The sports pathology of the child and the teenager took these last years a considerable importance because of sport practice in ages more and more younger and in more and more raised levels. Because of the musculo-skeletal immaturity, particular entities to the child could be individualized of which the most frequent is apophyseal avulsion fracture. Other entities like diaphyseal avulsion, most common in adult, can be seen in children. Through two paediatric observations of muscular femoral avulsion of adductor muscle, rare and often underestimated, we shall try to define the clinical, radiological and therapeutic characteristics of this lesion.