title: Complete Cord Injury after Minimal Trauma in a Patient with Forestier's Disease Accompanying Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea.
authors.forename: Gun Seok
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: Chang Il
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.forename: Seok Won
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seung Myung
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Ho
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shin