Torticollis revealing as a symptom of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in a fourteen-month-old girl.
The differential diagnosis of acquired torticollis in infants and children comprises a large variety of disorders, including inflammation, neurologic disease or trauma.


CONCLUSIONS
Spinal cord tumours in patients with ALL are a rarely reported entity and secondary spinal involvement in leukaemia presenting as head tilt is even more uncommon.
Rauch
R
R
Children's Hospital of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet, Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany. ralf.rauch@dland.de
Jüngert
J
J
Rupprecht
T
T
Greil
J
J
D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D014103:Torticollis / Q000175:diagnosis*