Coxo Vertebral Syndrome Causes and Statistics

Abstract

Vertebra plana is an affliction of childhood: it usually appears between 6 and 12 years of age. The most frequent clinical symptoms are thoracolumbar pain, short-segment kyphosis and loss of interest in playing. Radiologically, the flattening of the anterior part of the vertebral body is seen. For long, the affliction (described by Calvé as “osteochondritis”) was considered a form of aseptic, avascular bone necrosis, involving a single vertebral body. In 1954, Compere argued that Calvé’s theory was not correct and the affliction was caused instead by eosinophilic granuloma [3]. Many other publications and a large number of cases presented later supported his views [5–8].