(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.
(14) The plan clearly defines the objectives, the strategies and the division of responsibilities in its implementation, involving the following four major sectors of activity: prevention, treatment and rehabilitation; control and monitoring of substances used for legitimate purposes; suppression of the illicit drug traffic; and the eradication of illicit coca plant growing together with the promotion of agricultural, agro-industrial and forestial development.
(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.
Sylvan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.
(a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
(a.) A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.
(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.
Example Sentences:
(1) Out of 87 opossums, Didelphis albiventris, captured in the Bambuí area (Minas Gerais State), 32 (36.7%) were found infected by Trypanosoma cruzi; the rates varied according to whether the specimens originated from sylvan, rural peridomiciliar or urban surroundings, being 34.9, 81.8 and 7.7 respectively.
(2) Age composition, seasonal abundance and diel patterns of landing activity of the sylvan vector of yellow fever Haemagogus janthinomys Dyar were monitored weekly during 1981-82 by human collectors on the ground at Point Gourde in Chaguaramas Forest, 16 km west of Port of Spain, Trinidad.
(3) The festival includes the British premiere of The Death of Klinghoffer, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, with Sanford Sylvan in the title role.
(4) Hampstead Heath, as he doesn't mind telling you, was a kind of sylvan sweetshop so far as he was concerned, a Swizzles lolly behind every tree.
(5) Shortly before Stephen Ward scored his first Premier League goal, Pepe Reina had , for reasons best known to himself, passed straight to Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.
(6) These results indicated that there is a sylvan cycle which is maintained by mammal species, which are plundering this geographic area.
(7) All patients had encephalopathy and prior exposure to both a sylvan environment and flea-infested animals.
(8) Diel patterns of oviposition of sylvan Haemagogus equinus in the field in Trinidad, West Indies, were monitored weekly for 53 consecutive weeks using standard ovitraps.
(9) This article reports four observations of sexual criminals, sylvan and nocturnal rovers, with different personalities.
(10) It was a sylvan scene – a tent, a new wooden bench, a pile of neatly stacked logs, and the smell of dinner cooking on a fire.
(11) This note documents the first record of LAC antibodies in sylvan rodents from Indiana, the presence of LAC virus in the vicinity of Ae.
(12) The diel oviposition periodicity of sylvan Haemagogus janthinomys Dyar in the Pt.
(13) Phenomena associated with suburbanization, primarily the association of domestic and sylvan animals and their exposure to infected vector populations, may be instrumental in explaining the increased transmission of RMSF.
(14) The pattern of gene frequency variation suggests that these mosquito samples do not constitute a single panmictic population, but there are no large consistent differences between rock hole and domestic forms to parallel the East African sylvan-domestic dichotomy.
(15) The seasonal incidence and diel oviposition patterns of sylvan Haemagogus celeste and Hg.
(16) The potential public health importance of this sylvan disease in flying squirrels and in its ectoparasites, particularly the non-host specific, wide ranging squirrel flea, is noted.
(17) An ecological survey of triatomines in the sylvan ecosystem of the Canal Zone and selected sites in Panama disclosed for the first time a close association of Rhodnius pullescens and Triatoma dimidiata, the two most important vector species of Chagas' disease in Panama, with a single species of a widely distributed palm tree, Scheelea zonensis.