Synonyms for Forestier’s disease.
| Spondylitis deformans (Knaggs, 1925) |
| Spondylitis ossificans ligamentosa (Oppenheimer, 1942) |
| Senile ankylosing hyperostosis of the spine (Forestier and Rotes-Querol, 1950) |
| Spondylosis hyperostotica (Ott, 1953) |
| Physiologic vertebral ligamentous calcification (Smith, 1955) |
| Generalized juxtaarticular ossifications of ligaments of the vertebral column and of the ligamentous and tendinous tissues of the extremities (Sutro, 1956) |
| Vertebral hyperostosing discosomatic osteoarthritis (Biressi and Mussa, 1957) |
| Ankylosing hyperostosis (Bywaters, 1967) |
| Metabolic hyperostotic spondylopathy (Giordano, 1975) |
| Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (Resnick, 1975) |
| Diffuse enthesopathic hyperostosis (Lagier and Baud, 1978) |