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Septic arthritis of a lumbar facet joint.
Patients occasionally present with sudden onset of back pain, deformity and fever but with radiographs which, though taken after an appropriate interval, seem to exclude sepsis in the disc or vertebral body. Since there are many synovial joints in the spine, it seemed possible that septic arthritis of a facet joint might explain the discrepancy. A search of the world literature back to 1966, ho...
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Septic arthritis of a lumbar facet joint (SALFJ) is a very rare condition. It has mostly been described in adults. Only one other paediatric case has been reported. We present a case of septic arthritis of the left L5-S1 lumbar facet joint, associated with epiduritis and paraspinal abscess, in an 8-year-old boy. Plain radiographs and Technetium bone scan were negative. The diagnosis was made by...
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CASE REPORT A 59-year-old woman presented to our clinic two days after experiencing an onset of severe low back pain. There was no prior trauma or other known causal factor. The initial medical examination revealed no neurological abnormalities except for tenderness in her right lumbar region and a positive right Kemp sign. The patient had not developed a fever. Despite taking anti-inflammatory...
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BACKGROUND Here we report a rare case of lumbar spine epidural abscess and facet joint septic arthritis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae, which had spread to the iliopsoas muscles, leading to urine retention. CASE PRESENTATION A 68-year-old woman with low back pain experienced a sudden onset of bilateral lower limb weakness, it was followed 14 days later by urine retention. At consultation,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0301-620X,2044-5377
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620x.69b3.3584201