Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)
Forestier's disease
Facts
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Noninflammatory disease, with calcification and ossification of spinal ligaments and the regions where tendons and ligmanets attach to bone (entheses)
History / PE
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Neck, thoracic spine, low back, and/or extremity pain
Treatment
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Physical therapy and activity
Differential Diagnosis
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Spondylosis deformans
Anklyosing spndylitis
March 28th 2011
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