Original Etiology of Acute and Febrile Neck Pain: Cervical Calcification of Ligamentum Flavum

Calcification of Ligamentum Flavum (CLF) is an uncommon disorder. We present a 56-year-old patient with an acute inflammatory, febrile neck pain and higher value of ESR mimicking spine infection. The imaging investigations conclude for the diagnosis of calcification of the ligamentum flavum. Our observation illustrate the difficulties to differentiate, clinically, infection and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition in the spine and emphasize the importance of the imaging step in the diagnosis approach. Finally, we draw attention to the efficacy of medical treatment in our case and we discuss the different therapies proposed in the literature. *Corresponding author: Ines Mahmoud, 9 Avril Boulevard, Charles Nicolle hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Tunis, Tunisie, E-mail: [email protected] Received Novmber 09, 2011; Accepted April 21, 2012; Published April 22, 2012 Citation: Mahmoud I, Tekaya R, Saidane O, Chaabouni L, Zouari R (2012) Original Etiology of Acute and Febrile Neck Pain: Cervical Calcification of Ligamentum Flavum. Orthop Muscul Syst 1:109. doi:10.4172/2161-0533.1000109 Copyright: © 2012 Mahmoud I, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.