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The child is an individual in constant development, dependent on his/her parents with whom he interacts everyday to open out, and in particular, to construct a dependable image of his body for growing up comfortably. Announcement of a disease, real traumatism for the whole family, upsets these exchanges and can often induce psychological difficulties masked by the therapeutic somatic stakes placed at the foreground of concerns of each one: child, parents and doctors. The child's stakes are construction of a good image of the body (basis of his own) which can be deteriorated by the disease whatever it is (chronic disease, with relapse or vital prognosis engaged). The family's stakes are the perception of the disease by the parents (distress, culpability, depression) and sibling's reactions (aggressiveness, identification with the sick child, masked depression, functional troubles). Doctor's stakes in the chronic disease is to obtain therapeutic alliance of the child and his family to allow the good progress of the treatments. In front of the chronic disease's reality, it is essential to establish and maintain a multidisciplinary follow up. The child's psychiatrist role will be to take care of the exchanges, and listening among the doctors, the patient and his family are favoured.

Unlabelled: Discal calcification in childhood is rare. Calcifications are occasionally discovered during routine examinations. Generally, the calcification process is confined to the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc., Cases Report: We describe the cases of two children, five and seven years old who presented with acute low back pain. The patients underwent a CT scan, which demonstrated a posterolateral calcified disc hernia., Discussion: Only a few cases with evidence of calcification of the herniated portion of the disc have been previously described. The clinical picture is composed of pain and functional limitation. The radiographic picture consists of the association of morphological and structural alterations of vertebral bodies adjacent to one or more disc calcifications usually centrally sited, sometimes associated with anterior or posterior herniations. The surgical decompression of the nerve root could be necessary.