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The radiological criteria of juvenile, rheumatic, cervical synostosis discovered in adult life are described and illustrated. These include: involvement of few or many segments, a tendency to bony ankylosis of the diseased intervertebral joints, dysplasias or hypoplasia of the vertebral body and intervertebral disc and dysplasias of the neural arches and hypoplasia of the transverse processes. Pathological ossification may involve the ligamentum flavum, the annulus, or the entire disc. The differential diagnosis of juvenile, rheumatic, cervical synostosis includes congenital block vertebrae, Klippel-Feil syndrome, acquired block vertebrae, juvenile ankylosing spondylitis, synostosing, intervertebral osteochondrosis and myositis ossificans progressiva.
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PMID:[The radiogical criteria of juvenile rheumatic cerivical synostosis in adults (author's transl)]. 14 15

An investigation of three groups from ancient populations (Neolithic, Early Middle Ages, Middle Ages) was performed on 273 adult skeletons. Despite unequal preservation of the remains, a study of a series of large joints and spinal segments permitted some conclusions: rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and osteoarthrosis of large joints (hip, knee, shoulder) were not found. The main findings were: osteoarthrosis in spinal zygapophyseal joints (particularly at cervical level); intervertebral osteochondrosis (particularly at the cervical and lumbar levels); Schmorl's nodes (particularly at the thoracic and lumbar levels); enthesopathic osteophytes (particularly in the spine, iliac crest, patella, and calcaneus). Such deformities seemed more frequent in the Middle Ages than in the Neolithic period.
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PMID:Rheumatic diseases in Neolithic and Medieval populations of western Switzerland. 208 56

Radiographic, clinical and pathologic abnormalities of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) are presented. Definite criteria must be fulfilled to differentiate DISH from other diseases of the spine, especially intervertebral osteochondrosis and ankylosing spondylitis. A case of massive DISH in the cervical spine causing dysphagia is described.
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PMID:[Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis as a cause of dysphagia]. 357

Pathogenically the erosive intervertebral osteochondrosis is the destructive form of the intervertebral osteochondrosis. This paper aims to define this acute variant by means of diagnostic criteria. In differential diagnosis a spondylodiscitis, an ankylosing spondylitis, a destructive spondylo-arthropathy and a morbus Scheuermann must be considered. Fifteen patients with erosive osteochondrosis were treated at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of the University of Mainz between 1990 and 1994. The diagnosis on admission into hospital was incorrect in all cases. Plain X-rays showed a decrease in height in the affected intervertebral room and bony erosions of the adjacent vertebral endplates. Distinction to spondylodiscitis was possible in MRT. In contrast to erosive osteochondrosis in spondylodiscitis edema cannot only be seen in the adjoining vertebrae but also in the affected disc. In later paravertebral inflammatory abscess often can be found. After conservative treatment four patients were free of complaints. 11 patients were operated on due to neurologic symptoms or increasing kyphosis of the lumbar spine. At average follow-up of 16 months intervertebral fusion was found in all operated patients. Lack of publicity and severance to spondylodiscitis seem to be major problems in diagnosing erosive osteochondrosis.
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PMID:[Diagnosis and therapy of erosive intervertebral osteochondrosis]. 896 49