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Progressive cauda equina syndrome and extensive calification/ossification of the lumbosacral meninges

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A patient with longstanding ankylosing spondylitis (AS) developed a cauda equina syndrome. The myelogram showed a block at the L2 level. Vertebral computerised tomography showed calcification in the centre of the spinal canal. The patient also had features suggestive of a diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). Meningeal calcification has never been reported in AS, so we suggest that this is related to an associated DISH. Cauda equina syndrome has not been described in DISH, and calcification of meninges has not been reported in AS, so we suggest that the meningeal calcifications and associated cauda equina syndrome are related to DISH.

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Espondiloartritis anquilosant, Vèrtebres lumbars, Artrosi, Calcificació, Ossificació

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Ankylosing spondylitis, Lumbar vertebrae, Osteoarthritis, Calcification, Ossification

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ROTÉS QUEROL, J. (Jaume), et al. Progressive cauda equina syndrome and extensive calification/ossification of the lumbosacral meninges. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 1985. Vol. 44, num. 4, pags. 277-280. ISSN 0003-4967. [consulted: 16 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/22457

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