Childhood back pain: diagnostic evaluation of an unusual case.
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.
Svenson
J
J
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40536-0084.
Stapczynski
J S
JS
D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D018242:Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary