Complete Cord Injury after Minimal Trauma in a Patient with Forestier's Disease Accompanying Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament.
Forestier's disease is a systemic rheumatological abnormality in which exuberant ossification occurs along ligaments throughout the body, but most notably the anterior longitudinal ligament of the spine. This disease is usually asymptomatic; however dysphagia, dyspnea, and peripheral nerve entrapment have all been documented in association with the disorder. We report a rare case of catastrophic neurologic damage caused by Forestier's disease accompanying ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament.
Oh
Gun Seok
GS
Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea.
Ju
Chang Il
CI
Kim
Seok Won
SW
Lee
Seung Myung
SM
Shin
Ho
H