Septic Facet Joint Arthritis after a Corticosteroid Facet Injection
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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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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pain Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1526-2375,1526-4637
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2006.00089.x