Unusual cause of dysphagia and dysphonia

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. e243060
Author(s):  
Anup Singh ◽  
Gaurav Khatri ◽  
Kumud Kumar Handa

Forestier’s disease is an idiopathic noninflammatory condition associated with enthesopathy leading to hyperostosis of the vertebrae and peripheral skeletal system. The disease tends to affect elderly individuals and remains asymptomatic in most of the cases. Uncommonly, the patient may present with upper aerodigestive symptomatology, usually dysphagia. In elderly individuals, the disease may closely mimic upper aerodigestive tract malignancy, which should be actively excluded. In our patient, the hypopharyngeal soft tissue distortions created by the bony hypertrophy shifted the clinicoradiological suspicion towards malignant pathology. The current case presents the diagnostic dilemma associated with the disease and the need to keep the possibility of severe cervical bony hypertrophy as a cause of upper aerodigestive symptoms in mind.

2004 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Moor ◽  
Jemy Jose ◽  
Colin Johnston ◽  
Andrew P. Coatesworth ◽  
Ken A. MacLennan

1980 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Vaughan ◽  
Freddy Homburger ◽  
Stanley M. Shapshay ◽  
Enrique Soto ◽  
Peter Bernfeld

2003 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiichiro Okuno ◽  
Fumitaka Watase ◽  
Takeshi Tokumaru ◽  
Naohiko Watanabe ◽  
Hiroyuki Zusho ◽  
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