title: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis causing acute thoracic myelopathy: a case report and discussion.
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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reisner
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Stiles
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Tindall
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D004057:Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D013128:Spinal Osteophytosis / Q000150:complications*