Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) and spondylosis deformans in purebred dogs: A retrospective radiographic study

Spinal hyperostosis in humans and companion animals

“…Extreme stiffness and pain in the axial and appendicular skeleton, presumably due to DISH, were not responsive to treatment and resulted in the owners electing for euthanasia (Woodard et al 1985;Morgan & Stavenborn 1991). Although three out of the four cases described by us in a earlier report also had orthopaedic comorbidities, it is likely that the spinal new bone formation resulted in spinal pain and stiffness (Kranenburg et al 2011). Woodard et al (1985) did not specifically report about treatment other than that the dog was initially discharged with instructions for nursing care.…”

“…These types were described to be comparable with those seen in human ankylosing hyperostosis (former name for DISH) (Wright 1982a(Wright , 1982b. Recent reports of the prevalence of spondylosis and DISH in a group of pedigree dogs and in a group of cats used a comparable system as is depicted in Figure 4 (Kranenburg et al 2010;Kranenburg et al 2011;Kranenburg et al 2012). Other studies of canine vertebral hyperostosis did not specifically distinguish between these two different disorders, i.e., spondylosis and DISH (Morgan et al 1967;Read & Smith 1968;Wright 1982b;Langeland & Lingaas 1995;Carnier et al 2004).…”

“…Recently, a retrospective radiographic study on the prevalence of both DISH and spondylosis in a large group (n ¼ 2041) of pure-bred dogs was reported (Kranenburg et al 2010;Kranenburg et al 2011). Canine DISH and spondylosis were found alone or in combination, and the prevalence of both disorders increased with age.…”

“…Since earlier only two cases of canine DISH were reported, we studied four cases of DISH in detail to provide more background on the appearance of canine DISH. Radiography, CT, MRI, and/or (histo)pathology were described for these four dogs with DISH (Kranenburg et al 2011). Woodard et al (1985) described in their case report of a dog with DISH that the first skeletal abnormalities were seen on the caudal proximal third of the right femur and appeared to extend caudally to the ischium and cranially to the ilium.…”

Vertebral disease in excavated canine in Lower Silesia, Poland

“…Such pathologies frequently are diagnosed without other degenerative changes (Van der Kraan and van der Berg, 2007), although severe osteophytes, described as spondylotic changes, may accompanied by Hansen type-II degenerative disk disease (Levine et al, 2006). Type 4 spondylosis deformans is similar to DISH (see below) in humans in some studies (Kranenburg et al, 2011(Kranenburg et al, , 2012. Langeland and Lingaas (1995) and Carnier et al (2004) introduced another spondylosis classification in dogs, which divides the disease into three categories, associated with the degree of ostheophyte growth.…”