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Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and fluorosis

May 1992 | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery | Rao BS, Taraknath VR, Sista VN. | 74-B(3):469-70.
There is only one report of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) in patients suffering from fluorosis. Deshpande, Dinakarand Reddy (1976) mention an association with fluorosis in 14 of 26 cases. OPLL is not mentioned in two reviews of fluorosis (Jolly 1981; Reddy and Reddy 1987). Patients. In our neurological service, we saw 15 cases of OPLL in one year, allpresenting with spinal compression. They accounted for about 1 .5% of all spinal cases. Ten of them had associated