Fracture of the spine in patients with ankylosis due to diffuse skeletal hyperostosis: clinical and imaging findings.

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Only 12 patients with a fracture through a portion of the spine ankylosed by diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis have been reported. The purpose of this study was to determine the types of causative trauma, spinal sites at risk for fracture, complications mortality, diagnostic difficulties, and abnormalities identified only with special imaging studies in a group of 15 patients with this complication seen at our institution.The study included 15 patients with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis who had a spinal fracture through an area of ankylosed spine. The criteria for diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis include flowing calcification or ossification along the anterolateral margin of at least four contiguous vertebral bodies; preservation of disk height in the involved areas; and absence of bony ankylosis of the apophyseal joint and erosion, sclerosis, or bony fusion of the sacroiliac joints. All spinal radiographs, tomograms, CT scans, and MR images obtained in these patients were review...

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