Clinical images: “Melting down” of the cervical spine in a patient with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis

Abstract

values. In addition, as shown in Figure 1, no significant differences could be observed in the natural log-transformed values of both ESR (P ϭ 0.872) and CRP (P ϭ 0.934) between quintiles of 25(OH)D by Kruskal-Wallis test.The data of Patel et al are consistent with the hypothesis that 25(OH)D might play an immunomodulatory role in inflammatory arthritis (2). However, results of our retrospective analysis are not consistent with the hypothesis of a meaningful association between serum 25(OH)D levels and inflammatory markers in a population of healthy outpatients.