DYSPHAGIA AS A SYMPTOM OF VENTRAL CERVICAL DISC PROLAPSE

Ventral osteophytes, which occur frequently, usually cause no symptoms . They are sometimes identified as the cause of dysphagia. Cervical di sc prolapses which cause symptoms of dysphagia are far less common. Th is paper describes a patient with dysphagia in whom ventral cervical d isc prolapse was finally diagnosed by MR tomography, after she had bee n through a ''diagnostic odyssey''. The result was subsequently confir med at surgery. The relevant literature is also reviewed.