Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) Forestier's disease

  • Facts:
    Noninflammatory disease, with calcification and ossification of spinal ligaments and the regions where tendons and ligmanets attach to bone (entheses)
  • History / PE:
    Neck, thoracic spine, low back, and/or extremity pain
  • Treatment:
    Physical therapy and activity
  • Differential Diagnosis:
    Spondylosis deformans
    Anklyosing spndylitis



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March 28th 2011