[Distress of the airway due to vertebral ankylosing hyperostosis or Forestier-Rotes' disease]

An Otorrinolaringol Ibero Am. 1994;21(2):159-67.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

The AA. present one case in which the air-way was severely compromised because of the causative vertebral ankylosing hyperostosis, the so-called Forestier-Rotés's malady. Only 7 of resembling cases are recorded in the consulted literature. Survey of the related bibliography and comments about pathogenic criteria and diagnostic and therapeutic questions as well.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Airway Obstruction / etiology
  • Airway Obstruction / pathology
  • Cervical Vertebrae / pathology*
  • Deglutition Disorders / etiology
  • Deglutition Disorders / pathology
  • Humans
  • Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal / complications*
  • Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal / pathology
  • Laryngoscopy
  • Male
  • Parakeratosis / diagnosis
  • Parakeratosis / etiology
  • Parakeratosis / pathology
  • Tracheotomy
  • Vocal Cords / pathology
  • Vocal Cords / surgery
  • Voice Disorders / etiology
  • Voice Disorders / pathology