[A child elbow calcific bursitis: no hasty surgical option. A case report]

We report the elbow calcific bursitis case of an 11 years old child. The imaging let us notice a lateral peri-articular calcifying and we planned a surgical biopsy. But the tumour spontaneous resolutive development in the clinical aspect and its ray disappearance led to a therapeutic abstention. The set of clinical elements, the imaging and the development let us come to a calcific bursitis diagnosis, exception for a child. These calcifyings are located in the sinew bursa. virtual cavities in a normal state. They are related to a sinew chronic antagonism with an anatomic bony ground and they generally develop in a spontaneous resolution with a macrophagic resorption. However their rare occurrence for a child must lead us to be extremely cautious in the diagnostic of child bony tumours in general and extra-bony calcifyings in particular: the rule must be the imaging result and the biopsy.