A 51 year old man came with back pain and neck stiffness since five months
Radiographs of the cervical spine show flowing ossification along the anterior aspect of the vertebral bodies. The intervertebral disc spaces are normal.
Forestier's disease is named after Jacques Forestier (1890–1978), a prominent French rheumatologist , who along with his student, Jaume Rotes-Querol, first described the condition in 1950.