Disc calcifications are usually revealed in children by pain crises that affect the spine. The most common location for disc calcifications is the cervical spine. However, other locations are less symptomatic and they may well go unnoticed. We here report two cases of children hospitalized with symptomatic cervical disc calcifications. The first case involves a girl aged four and a half suffering from torticollis revealing the migration of a previously asymptomatic disc calcification ; the second case, instead, involves a 5-year old boy presenting for acute neck pain and in whom calcification disc was detected. Treatment was essentially conservative. Intervertebral disc calcifications in children are a rare condition whose etiopathogenesis remains unknown. In the case of children with unexplained back pain the diagnosis should not be made without careful neurological examination and imaging tests.
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