[Osteochondrosis as a possible cause of pharyngeal dysphagia].

Dysphageal complaints in a 65-year-old woman were regarded as a manifestation of mental illness. The autopsy of the patient weighing 32 kg who died from bilateral pneumonia revealed 9-mm osteophytes on the anterior surface of the cervical spine as the cause of dysphagia. Twenty-nine cases of cervical osteochondrosis-induced dysphagia, published in the literature, were analyzed.