Mody G M, Charles R W, Ranchod H A, Rubin D L
Department of Medicine, King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban, South Africa.
J Rheumatol. 1988 Jan;15(1):129-31.
The occurrence of spinal fractures in ankylosing spondylitis is well documented but fractures are uncommon in patients with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). We report a 58-year-old Black male with DISH who developed quadriplegia after fracture dislocation of the cervical spine.