Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis causing acute thoracic myelopathy: a case report and discussion.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A case of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis presenting as acute thoracic myelopathy is reported. Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis has long been regarded as a radiological entity with an innocuous clinical course. The manifestations of this disease are reviewed. There is mounting evidence that it is neither a clinically infrequent nor, as this case report illustrates, an exclusively benign condition.
Medical subject headings
- Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal
- Spinal Cord Diseases
- Spinal Osteophytosis