title: Childhood back pain: diagnostic evaluation of an unusual case.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40536-0084.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Svenson
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Stapczynski
mesh_terms: 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