Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament in the cervical spine

Ossification of the ligamentum longitudinale posterius is a rare disease found in particular in Japan and southeastern Asia. In the literature it is described as the so-called Japanese disease or OPLL syndrome. The disease takes a slow, frequently asymptomatic, course but may cause severe stenosis of the spinal canal with neurological disorders, OPLL occurs frequently concurrently with ankylosing spondylitis, hypertrophic spondylosis, diffuse idiopathic hyperostosis of the skeleton. Own observation: a 68-year-old man with a long history of cervicalgia, subsequently paraesthesias of the upper extremities, without a spastic atactic symptomatology of the lower extremities. An X-ray extremities, of the skeleton was made, tomograms and CT of the cervical spine. In the Cl-6 area major ossifications of the posterior longitudinal ligament were found which caused stenosis of the spinal canal of an extent of up to two thirds.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1990

Erschienen:

1990

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:44

Enthalten in:

Ceskoslovenska radiologie - 44(1990), 5 vom: 16. Sept., Seite 322-5

Sprache:

Tschechisch

Weiterer Titel:

Osifikace ligamentum longitudinale posterius v krcní páteri

Beteiligte Personen:

Nekula, J [VerfasserIn]
Chytilová, E [VerfasserIn]
Köcher, M [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Case Reports
Journal Article

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 16.01.1991

Date Revised 23.11.2016

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM021047987