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[Rare causes of ossification of the posterior common vertebral ligament causing cervical compression. Apropos of 2
M Chaabane1, F Khedher, R Abid
1Service d'Imagerie Médicale, Hôpital Charles-Nicolle, Tunis.
Journal De Radiologie
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
The ossification of the posterior longitudinal is always responsible of cervical myelopathy. Radiological study and the CT scan, are able to precise the level, the morphologic and associated abnormalities of this lesion. Two cases of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligamentum with cervical myelopathy are reported. The radiologic studies determined the etiology, in the first case, it was fluorosis and the second DISH disease.