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To the Editor: One of the images presented by Aronowitz and Cobarrubias (Dec. 25 issue)¹ is described as showing a "huge mantle of osteophytic bone anterior to the spine from C2 to C7." The term "osteophyte," however, is controversial when used in relation to the nonsynovial discs of the spine. More important, the images are of a specific entity with a widespread ossifying diathesis. This condition was originally described in the spine by Forestier and Rotes-Querol² in 1950 and became known as Forestier's disease. A landmark article by Resnick and colleagues³ in 1975 popularized the more descriptive term "diffuse idiopathic . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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