The influence of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis on bone mineral density measurements of the spine

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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on July 14, 2009 Rheumatology 2009 48(9):1133-1136; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep177 © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org The influence of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis on bone mineral density measurements of the spine L. Anneloes Westerveld1, Jorrit-Jan Verlaan1, Marnix G. E. H. Lam2, Wendy P. Scholten2, Ronald L. A. W. Bleys3, Wouter J. A. Dhert1,4 and F. Cumhur Oner1 1Department of Orthopaedics, 2Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 3Department of Anatomy, University Medical Center Utrecht and 4Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Correspondence to: Jorrit-Jan Verlaan, Department of Orthopaedics, University Medical Center Utrecht, G 05.228, PO Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail: j.j.verlaan@umcutrecht.nl