(1) The paper describes current concepts of this clinical entity also known as Forestier's disease.
(2) They found 17 cases in which dorsal vertebral hyperostosis was indiscutable and in which there was acquired stenosis of the cervical canal related to the bony proliferations that had developed on the anterior face of the cervical canal and to the type of cells described by Forestier and Rotes-Querol on the anterior and lateral faces of the vertebral column.
(3) Applying available epidemiologic information, these data further suggest that patients with the B27 antigen may be at substantial risk of developing Forestier's disease.
(4) Radiologic studies are essential in diagnosing Forestier's disease and include lateral cervical spine roentgenograms, thoracic and lumbosacral vertebrae roentgenograms, esophagram, vertebrae roentgenograms, esophagram, and computed tomography.
(5) These included (a) Forestier's disease, (b) ankylosing spondylitis, and (c) polyarthrosis of the hands.
(6) Forestier disease, or ankylosing hyperostosis, is a common disorder of middle-aged and elderly persons.
(7) In patients with Forestier's disease, B5 was increased, but this was not a significant difference.
(8) Recently, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) or Forestier's disease has also been identified as a cause of dysphagia.
(9) Despite the lack of apophyseal or sacroiliac joint involvement, Forestier's disease (vertebral ankylosing hyperostosis) shares with the inflammatory forms of spondylitis, the roentgenographic appearance of spinal new bone formation.
(10) Multiple ossifications of tendons often suggest Forestier's disease and ankylosing spondylitis.
(11) Because of this apparent similarity, the prevalence of the HL-A B27 antigen was determined in 47 white patients with Forestier's disease.
(12) The authors analysed the case histories of 40 patients with cervical myelopathy and were struck by the frequency of associated vertebral hyperostosis (Forestier and Rotès-Quérol disease).
(13) The overall structure, previously determined by X-ray analysis of an N-bromoacetyl derivative (Anguili, R., Foresti, E., Riva Di Sanserverino, L., Isaacs, N.W., Kennard, O., Motherwell, W.D.S., Wampler, D.L.
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(15) 61 shoulders of rheumatoid diseases, 23 of ankylosing spondylo-arthritis, 22 of psoriatic rheumatism and 30 of hyperostoses (Forestier's disease) were analysed and compared.
(16) In 11 patients with Forestier disease 4 were shown to have obliteration of the sacroiliac joints.
(17) Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (Forestier's disease) is a common disorder found in the spinal region, but the notable finding in this case presentation is the associated dysphagia and dysphonia that occurred with it.
(18) A case of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (Forestier's disease) causing dysphonia as the presenting and only symptom is reported.
(19) The Forestier's disease is an skeletal idiopathy described by this A. and Rotés Querol, in 1950, characterized by the systemic ossification in variable degree of the vertebral column.
(20) On the nosological point of view, this radio-clinical picture, individualized by Forestier, was successively considered as an autonomous affection, a rheumatoid polyarthritis (P.R.
Silvan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody.
(n.) See Sylvanium.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Jerusalem, Silvan Shalom, the Israeli foreign minister, said Israel was disappointed with New Zealand's reaction.
(2) Silvan Shalom, speaking after meeting the Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat in the West Bank city of Jericho, told reporters: "We hope that the talks between Israel and the Palestinians in Washington will begin next week, hopefully Tuesday.
(3) Shortly after the exit polls were released, the Likud minister Silvan Shalom said that Netanyahu would invite Bennett – the leader of the far-right, pro-settler party Jewish Home – Lieberman, the ultra-Orthodox parties and Kahlon to join a rightwing coalition in the next two days.
(4) Swiss tradition meets contemporary design at this revamped four-star with spa run by the family of ski-racing stars Pirmin, Heidi and Silvan Zurbriggen.
(5) The Israeli energy minister, Silvan Shalom, raised the issue at a ministerial conference in Rome last week and held talks on the margins with the EU’s vice president for energy union, Maros Sefkovic, Israeli sources say.
(6) Hours after police set up checkpoints in Palestinian neighbourhoods of east Jerusalem, the interior minister, Silvan Shalom, said he was revoking the residency status of Palestinians from the city who had taken part in attacks on Jews.
(7) In the event, the Knesset never approved his pardon because of the vehement opposition of ministers such as Silvan Shalom, who said: "It is out of the question to free an assassin who has blood on his hands and was duly sentenced by a court."