Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis causes dysphagia in older patients

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is a common but often unrecognised systemic disorder observed mainly in elderly people. All papers related to DISH demonstrate a consistent and marked increase of the disease with advancing age. Various local structural lesions such as oropharyngeal tumours, vascular pathologies, retropharyngeal abscesses, and anterior cervical osteophytes may lead to mechanical oesophageal dysphagia...

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