title: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) causing spinal stenosis and sudden paraplegia.
abstract: Neurologic complications due to spinal cord compression developed in a patient with diffuse, idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (Forestier's disease) originally mistaken for ankylosing spondylitis. Emergency laminectomy stopped progression of the symptoms and resulted in slow improvement.
mesh_terms: D001848:Bone Diseases, Developmental / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D011859:Radiography; D013130:Spinal Stenosis / Q000209:etiology*; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000175:diagnosis