Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 4-2011. A 4-year-old boy with back pain and hypercalcemia

N Engl J Med. 2011 Feb 10;364(6):552-62. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1011318.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Back Pain / etiology
  • Blood Cell Count
  • Bone Diseases, Metabolic / diagnostic imaging
  • Bradycardia
  • Brain / pathology
  • Child, Preschool
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Diagnostic Errors
  • Fractures, Compression / diagnostic imaging*
  • Fractures, Compression / etiology
  • Humans
  • Hypercalcemia / etiology*
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / pathology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / complications
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / diagnosis*
  • Radiography
  • Spinal Fractures / diagnostic imaging*
  • Spinal Fractures / etiology