Sacral insufficiency fracture—a case of post‐coital back pain
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Sacral insufficiency fractures: an unsuspected cause of low back pain.
We describe 10 cases of sacral fractures diagnosed within the rheumatology department at Southend Hospital over the last 5 yr. All presented with sudden-onset low back pain. The majority were elderly, frail, with chronic inflammatory disease (six with rheumatoid arthritis, one with polymyalgia rheumatica, one with vasculitis) and had received steroids. Diagnosis was delayed by the inability of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1462-0332,1462-0324
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/40.9.1065