Dysphagia in a patient with giant osteophytes: Case presentation and review of the literature

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 70-72

  Ebo, Didier ^a,c   Goethals, L ^b   Bracke, P ^a   Mercelis, R ^a   De Clerck, L S ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b AZ Stuyvenberg ^*  (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anterior longitudinal ligament; Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis; Dysphagia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BARIUM MEAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; HUMAN; HYPEROSTOSIS; MALE; OSTEOPHYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPEROSTOSIS, DIFFUSE IDIOPATHIC SKELETAL; LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENTS; MALE; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; SPINAL STENOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034005526     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100670050016     Document Type: Article

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