title: Back pain: the sole of presentation of sickle cell disease.
abstract: Diagnosing back pain in children and adolescents can be a challenge to health care providers. Although studies show that more than half of the cases of back pain in children are of non-organic cause, missing the right diagnosis could be detrimental. We present a case of lower back pain in a ten-year-old male whom we eventually diagnosed with hemoglobin SE mutation, which responded well to pain management. Hence, sickle cell disease with vaso-occlusive crisis should be incorporated into the list of differential diagnoses in children with back pain.
authors.affiliation: General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: Samar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Osman
authors.affiliation: General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: Shabina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: Mohamed A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hendaus
keywords: HbSE; case report; hemoglobin; pediatrics