caa a22 4500 388083662 CHVBK 20180307125224.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022215100143178 doi S0022215100143178 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022215100143178 An unusual case of stridor due to osteophytes of the cervical spine: (Forestier's disease) [Elektronische Daten] Stridor is a noisy breathing caused by compromised airway in the larynx and trachea. The causes can either be due to intrinsic or extrinsic compression. Stridor resulting from extrinsic compression due to anterior cervical osteophytes is rare. We report an unusual case of acute stridor due to an osteophytic mass in the cervical vertebrae resulting in a mechanical upper airway obstruction. The underlying pathology was Forestier's disease or diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). Stridor is a rare manifestation of DISH and it certainly represents the most lifethreatening one. Only a few cases have been reported in the English literature and are mainly secondary to impaired function of the vocal folds, or postcricoid ulceration and oedema. We present such a case, in that stridor was the result of direct airway obstruction by the osteophytic mass and an emergency tracheostomy had to be performed to establish an airway. Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1999 Stridor nationallicence Spinal Osteophytosis, Forestier's disease nationallicence Papakostas K. Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Arrowe Park Hospital, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, UK. Thakar A. Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Arrowe Park Hospital, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, UK. Nandapalan V. Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Arrowe Park Hospital, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, UK. O'Sullivan G. Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Arrowe Park Hospital, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, UK. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 113/1(1999-01), 65-67 0022-2151 113:1<65 1999 113 JLO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100143178 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 other jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100143178 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Papakostas K. Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Arrowe Park Hospital, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Thakar A. Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Arrowe Park Hospital, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nandapalan V. Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Arrowe Park Hospital, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- O'Sullivan G. Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Arrowe Park Hospital, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 113/1(1999-01), 65-67 0022-2151 113:1<65 1999 113 JLO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge