Senile Ankylosing Hyperostosis of the Spine

Senile ankylosing hyperostosis of the spine.

Our attention has been drawn to an ankylosing disease of the spine developing in old people, with a painless onset and clinical, pathological, and radiological features distinguishing it from ankylosing spondylitis. Some descriptions of anatomical specimens in the literature seem similar to those we have found, but no clinical or radiological studies on this subject have been published. Leri (1...

Pathology of the dorsal spine in ankylosing hyperostosis.

SELECTION OF SPECIMENS Dorsal spines were removed from twenty subjects at postmortem examination. They were judged to have AH on the basis of the presence of syndesmophytes in the form of bony flanges or bridges situated predominantly on the right anterolateral aspect of the bodies of two or more vertebrae, and the absence of previous clinical findings or other spinal pathology which could acco...

Ankylosing hyperostosis. I. Clinical and radiological features.

Ankylosing hyperostosis is a condition in which new bone is laid down on the right antero-lateral aspect of the dorsal vertebrae and across the intervertebral spaces forming spurs or bridges. The lumbar and cervical spines, pelvis, hips, and knees may also be involved. There is no single approved name for this condition. Oppenheimer (1942) described 'Calcification and ossification of vertebral ...

Radiological study of the sacroiliac joints in vertebral ankylosing hyperostosis.

A radiological study of the sacroiliac joints was undertaken in 54 patients (32 males, 22 females) with vertebral ankylosing hyperostosis (VAH) and in 46 control patients (24 males, 22 females) matched for age and sex. The ages ranged from 38 to 90 years. The radiographs were taken in anteroposterior, oblique, and craniocaudal projections. The films were read for cranial, ventral, and caudal ca...

[Clinical studies of ankylosing hyperostosis of the spine in spinal cord injured patients: heterotopic ossification and initial findings].