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Calcifying discopathy in infancy involving in the cervical spine has already been observed and described by many authors, as a well-defined clinico-radiological syndrome with a benign course. The clinical picture is composed of: pain and functional limitation, sometimes with a stiff neck, more rarely slight fever, increase of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate or leukocytosis. The radiographic picture consists of the association of morphological and structural alterations of vertebral bodies adjacent to one or more disc calcifications usually centrally sited, sometimes associated with anterior or posterior herniations. On the basis of the observation of 7 patients of up to 15 years of age, the authors propose to evaluate the changes of both the vertebral bodies and the discs involved in the disease over a period of time. The repetition of even modest alterations, that persist in time, testify to the involvement of the vertebral growth perhaps, more than the discal alterations connected with the calcification.
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Urso, S., Colajacomo, M., Migliorini, A. et al. Calcifying discopathy in infancy in the cervical spine: evaluation of vertebral alterations over a period of time. Pediatr Radiol 17, 387–391 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02396615
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