Childhood back pain: diagnostic evaluation of an unusual case

Am J Emerg Med. 1994 May;12(3):334-6. doi: 10.1016/0735-6757(94)90153-8.

Abstract

Low back pain is uncommon in children. The case of a 5-year-old boy presenting with back pain that proved to be caused by a metastatic primitive neuroectodermal tumor is presented and the evaluation of such patients is discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Back Pain / etiology*
  • Back Pain / physiopathology
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive / complications*
  • Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive / diagnosis
  • Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive / secondary
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms / complications*
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms / secondary