Enthesopathy of the anterior chest wall joints in patients with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH): a retrospective analysis of computed tomography scans.

Purpose: To evaluate and characterize anterior chest wall (ACW) joint's enthesopathy on CT scans in patients with DISH compared with age- and gender-matched control group.

Material And Methods: Retrospective evaluation for enthesopathy features of ACW joints-sterno-clavicular (SCJ), manubrio-sternal (MSJ), costo-sternal 1-7 (CSJ)-on chest CT scans of subjects with DISH (Resnick criteria) and of age- and gender-matched control subjects was performed. 183 subjects (DISH: 92, control: 91); male:female: 126:57, average age: 71.