Sternocostoclavicular hyperostosis (SCCH) is an infrequent chronic inflammatory disorder of the axial skeleton of unknown origin. SCCH goes often unrecognized due to a low level of awareness for the disorder. It typically presents with relapsing and remitting pain in the shoulder, neck, and anterior chest wall area with occasional swelling and tenderness of the sternoclavicular area. The diagno...

Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL), defined as pathological hypertrophy and prominent bony formation of the posterior longitudinal ligament, compresses the spinal cord and results in myelopathy.6,12 The first report of OPLL was made in 1839.16 Tsukimoto presented the first Japanese autopsy case of cervical OPLL in 196040 and Terayama et al. gave the disease its name.38 T...

This article describes the critical clinical sequelae of a patient with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis who sustained an acute iatrogenic thoracic vertebral body fracture with subsequent spinal cord injury after a total hip replacement, with a final lethal course.A 57-year-old woman was referred to the authors' institution after undergoing a total hip replacement in the supine position...