Pediatric Discitis Wheeless

Description: Discussion: - a benign, self-limiting inflammation or infection of an intervertebral disc space or a vertebral end-plate; - it may represent extension of subacute vertebral endplate osteomyelitis which does not produce a progressive vertebral osteomyelitis; - discitis presents in different ways at different ages; - in adult disc space usually goes on to fusion, where as in child disc space is usually restored; - can be difficult to diagnose in the uncommunicative child of one to three years of age