Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis: Diagnosis in a palaeopathological context

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 202-215

  Van der Merwe, A E ^a,b   Maat, G J R ^a   Watt, I ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKYLOSING HYPEROSTOSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SPINE;

ADULT; DIET; FEMALE; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; HYPEROSTOSIS, DIFFUSE IDIOPATHIC SKELETAL; LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENTS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SPINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862304894     PISSN: 0018442X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchb.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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