Miklós Kásler - Zoltán Szentirmay (szerk.): Identifying the Árpád Dynasty Skeletons Interred in the Matthias Church. Applying data from historical, archaeological, anthropological, radiological, morphological, radiocarbon dating and genetic research (Budapest, 2021)

CHAPTER FOUR – Palaeopathological investigations

Figure 18. Forestier’s disease in skeleton 1/4 H6 (Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperstosis, DISH)

Józsa (2010),

as well as Józsa

and

Forgács

(2009)

published an excellent summary on the pathomorphology and history of Forestier’s disease. In the following, we provide direct quotes from these studies, which we edited at our own discretion.

“Forestier and Rotes-Querol described the disease later named after them as ‘ankylosing hyperostosis’ in 1950. They separated its clinical and x-ray-morphological image from other diseases of the spine that involved fusion of the bones. In the early stage, the following were observed: focal ossification of the ligamentum

longitudinale anterius, degeneration

of the annulus fibrosus,

L-,

T-, or Y-shaped terolateral extension of the annulus’ peripheral 97