The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal Publish Ahead of Print DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000725 Cervical Discitis in Children Oded Scheuerman, MD,1,4,5 Daniel Landau, MD,1,5 Michael Schwarz, MD,2,5 Vered Hoffer,

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MD,1,5 Nufar Marcus, MD,1,5 Liat Ashkenazi Hoffnung, MD,1,3,5 and Itzhak Levy, MD,4,5

From the Departments of 1Pediatrics B, 2Imaging, and 3Pediatrics C, and 4Pediatric Infectious

Disease Unit, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, PetachTikva; 5Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv; Israel

Abbreviated title: Cervical Discitis in Children Running head: Cervical Discitis

Corresponding author: O. Scheuerman, MD

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Department of Pediatrics B and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel PetachTikva 49202, Israel Phone: +972-3-925 3681

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E-mail: [email protected] Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding: None were declared. Key Words: cervical discitis, children.

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ABSTRACT Cervical discitis, though rare, should be included in the differential diagnosis of torticollis, neck pain, and neurodevelopmental regression in motor skills in children and infants . Magnetic resonance imaging is the diagnostic method of choice. Treatment

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should be conservative with antibiotics only . The aim of this study was to describe the

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10-year experience of a tertiary pediatric medical center with cervical discitis.

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INTRODUCTION Discitis is a rare inflammatory disorder of the intervertebral disc space. It may involve only the disc or the adjacent vertebral end plates as well (spondylodiscitis).1,2 Children are affected more often than adults, with dual peaks in incidence in early childhood (

Cervical Discitis in Children.

Cervical discitis, though rare, should be included in the differential diagnosis of torticollis, neck pain and neurodevelopmental regression in motor ...
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