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Dowager's hump
Dowager's hump Severe thoracic kyphosis in an elderly lady with osteoporosis.
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Thoracic
Pertaining to or affecting the chest.
Kyphosis
Posterior curvature of the spine. ('Hump back' deformity).
Osteoporosis
Break-down or disintegration of bone, resulting in diminished and porous bone mass. Osteoporosis can result from cancer (including breast cancer) that has spread to the bones), some cancer therapies, and estrogen deficiency (estrogen is an important participant in maintaining bone). Osteoporosis can cause pain, deformity (especially of the spine), pathologic fractures (fractures caused by weakened bone), or traumatic fractures (for example, wrist or hip fracture from a fall).
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Diaphyseal aclasis
A syndrome in which there are multiple enchondromata.
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Short stature, cleft palate, thick pinnae and other features. Autosomal recessive inheritance.
Disc prolapse
Condition in which an intervertebral disc is damaged and some of it protrudes. May cause sciatica if it does so in the vicinity of a major nerve in the spine.
DISH
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis. Florid new bone formation at entheses results in spinal stiffness. May be confused with ankylosing spondylitis. (Forestier's disease, Ankylosing hyperostosis)
DMARD
Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug.
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Duypuytrens contracture
Fixed flexion deformity of finger(s) due to thickening, nodularity and contracture of palmar aponeurosis.
DXA
See DEXA. A means of measuring bone density to detect osteoporosis.
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