| Literature DB >> 28154725 |
Eitel Igor Kouamo1, Merouane Nour1, Jean Marie Gennar1, Jean Marc Guillaume1, Elie Choufani1, Thierry Merrot1, Jean Pierre Alessandrni1, Kathia Chaumoitre2, Michel Panuel2, Namane Doumbouya3, Patrice Guemaleu3.
Abstract
Disc calcifications are usually revealed in children by pain crises that affect the spine. The most common location for disc calcifications is the cervical spine. However, other locations are less symptomatic and they may well go unnoticed. We here report two cases of children hospitalized with symptomatic cervical disc calcifications. The first case involves a girl aged four and a half suffering from torticollis revealing the migration of a previously asymptomatic disc calcification ; the second case, instead, involves a 5-year old boy presenting for acute neck pain and in whom calcification disc was detected. Treatment was essentially conservative. Intervertebral disc calcifications in children are a rare condition whose etiopathogenesis remains unknown. In the case of children with unexplained back pain the diagnosis should not be made without careful neurological examination and imaging tests.Entities:
Keywords: Intervertebral disc calcifications; child; torticollis
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Year: 2016 PMID: 28154725 PMCID: PMC5268794 DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2016.25.34.10543
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pan Afr Med J
Figure 1Radiographie du rachis cervical incidence de profil ou l’on voit au niveau des vertèbres C2C3 des calcifications discales étagées des disques intervertébraux chez le patient 1
Figure 2Radiographie du rachis cervical incidence de Face ou l’on voit au niveau des vertèbres C2C3 des calcifications discales étagées des disques intervertébraux
Figure 3Mise en évidence des calcifications chez le patient 1 à l’IRM sans signe de compression médullaire associé
Figure 4Calcifications discales chez le cas 2 à hauteur de C3 sur une coupe TDM
Figure 5Calcifications inter discales à hauteur de C3 sur l’incidence de radiographie de face chez le patient 2
Figure 6Calcifications inter discales à hauteur de C3 sur l’incidence de radiographie de profil chez le patient 2