Multiple peripheral nerve entrapment in Forestier's disease (diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis).
A patient with typical diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis and characteristic new bone formation around the elbows exhibited bilateral ulnar nerve entrapment at these sites as well as median nerve compression at one wrist.
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Rheumatology Unit, U.M.D.S., Guy's Hospital, London.
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D006801:Humans; D004057:Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000209:etiology*; D013128:Spinal Osteophytosis / Q000150:complications*