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Heberden node

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A Heberden node is soft-tissue swelling around the Distal InterPhalyngeal (DIP) joint.

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Bouchard node

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A Bouchard node is soft-tissue swelling around the Proximal InterPhalyngeal (PIP) joint.

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Kümmel disease

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Osteonecrosis and collapse of a vertebral body due to ischemia and non-union of anterior vertebral body wedge fractures after major trauma. Gas in a vertebral body.

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Romanus lesion

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early finding in inflammatory spondyloarthropathies, such as ankylosing spondylitis and enteropathic arthritis, and appears as irregularity and erosion involving the anterior and posterior edges of the vertebral endplates

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Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)

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Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH, Forestier disease) is a distinct entity from degenerative
disc disease, but appears similar due to exuberant osteophytosis. DISH is defined as
flowing bridging anterior osteophytes spanning at least four vertebral levels, with
normal disk spaces and sacroiliac joints.