Hiperostosis

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis ( DISH) is a disease whose prevalence increases with age, and is characterized by a tendency to ossification of tendons , ligaments , periosteum and joint capsules , either spinal extramedullary. Its diagnostic and therapeutic management must be performed by the family doctor. The radiological manifestations are your business card, but we must not forget its clinical manifestations or extramedullary spinal. We will refer the level of care in diagnostic doubt or suspect compressive pathology ( spinal or esophageal level ). We report the case as considering due to its radiological and clinical manifestations.

Hyperostosis has been considered a radiological entity whose clinical symptoms are of little importancia6. It is generally true, though to be an old man's own pathology may be obscured by other degenerative diseases. Resnick said that most patients have symptoms of hyperostosis. The most common is the limitation of spinal mobility. Whenever we find a limitation of motion in an old man who does not report pain, we should consider the possibility of a hyperostosis. Hiperostósicos patients, suffering from back pain , cervical pain or back pain more frequently.