Multiple peripheral nerve entrapment in Forestier's disease (diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis).

Authors :: Haskard DO
Panayi GS
Source :: British journal of rheumatology [Br J Rheumatol] 1988 Oct; Vol. 27 (5), pp. 407-8.
Publication Year :: 1988
Abstract: 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.

Subjects :: Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal complications
Nerve Compression Syndromes etiology
Spinal Osteophytosis complications

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