A 58-year-old man with diabetes mellitus who did not smoke presented to the hospital with a 12-month history of back pain, progressive numbness in his extremities and difficulty walking. Upon physical ...

A research team from Turkey reported a case of an elderly patient who suffered from dysphagia and weight loss and the diagnostic stages. The patient was diagnosed as diffuse idiopathic skeletal ...

Hyperostosis means there's a condition of increased growth of skeletal bone. Idiopathic means the cause of the disorder is unknown. In DISH, the ligaments that connect one spinal bone (vertebrae) to ...

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is a common but often unrecognized systemic disorder observed mainly in elderly people. All papers related to DISH demonstrate a consistent and marked ...