[Back pain in children].

Back pain and pain of the surrounding structures leads to significant diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties which result from a complex pathomechanism. They are the symptom of a large number of pathologic processes that may to a varying extent contribute to pain related manifestation of symptoms. In 80-90% of cases the cause of the back pain remains unknown, only in 10-20% adult patients it is feasible to establish the etiological factor during one year observation. Contrary to the situation in adults, in over 50% of children it is possible to identify the cause of the reported ailments. The authors present etiological factors and clinical symptoms in 44 patients, hospitalized because of back pain in Child Neurology Department of Medical University of Silesia in Katowice in the period between 2004 and 2007.