RARE CAUSES OF OSSIFICATION OF THE POSTER IOR COMMON VERTEBRAL LIGAMENT PROVOKING CERVICAL COMPRESSION - 2 CASE-REPORTS

Citation
M. Chaabane et al., RARE CAUSES OF OSSIFICATION OF THE POSTER IOR COMMON VERTEBRAL LIGAMENT PROVOKING CERVICAL COMPRESSION - 2 CASE-REPORTS, Journal de radiologie, 76(1), 1995, pp. 43-46
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal title
ISSN journal
02210363
Volume
76
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
43 - 46
Database
ISI
SICI code
0221-0363(1995)76:1<43:RCOOOT>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
The ossification of the posterior longitudinal is always responsable o f cervical myelopathy. Radiological studie and the CT scan, are able t o precise the level, the morphologic and associated abnormalities of t his lesion. Two cases of ossification of the posterior longitudinal li gamentum with cervical myelopathy are reported. The radiologic studies determineted the etiology, in the first case, it was fluorosis and th e second DISH disease.