SB Trabzon Fatih Devlet Hastanesi, Nöroşirürji Kliniği, Trabzon
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is rare in the etiology of dysphagia. Vertebragenic dysphagia is one of the extraspinal symptoms related to DISH. In this report, a patient evaluated due to dysphagia and diagnosed as ''esophageal external compression caused by cervical weighted DISH'' is presented. Clinical and radiologic features of the case and its conservative or surgical treatment alternatives are discussed.