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  • Title: [Dysphagia: Forestier and Rotes Querol disease].
    Author: Cruz-Ruiz MA, López-Saúz M, Padierna-Luna JL, García-Pescador D, Franco-Grande MA, Núñez-Sánchez A.
    Journal: Rev Gastroenterol Mex; 2008; 73(3):181-3. PubMed ID: 19671508.
    Abstract:
    Inside of the study of Dysphagia, until 38% of the greater patients of 50 years, they present/display cervical Osteophytes like cause of Dysphagia; frequently I diagnose passes for the methods of radiology and endoscopy unnoticed. The disease of Forestier and Rotes better well known Querol or like skeletal hiperostosis diffuse idiophatic it is characterized by the formation of spinal and cervical Osteophytes, ossification of ligaments and muscles for vetebrates of the cervical column. Frequently it produces affectation to medullar that it can pronounce like Dysphagia and crosstalk. We presented/displayed the case of a patient of 78 years with chronic pneumopathy, that presents/displays Dysphagia and progressive crosstalk with pondered loss, in where radiology of the cervical column they show cervical osteofitos with espondilolistesis, rectification of the cervical lordosis and diminution of the intersomatic spaces that they compress the trachea and column of air and an extrinsic compression below the cricopharyngeal is documented by endoscopy.
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