CT arthrography (CTa) and MR arthrography (MRa) are useful tools for the investigation of intra-articular hip disease. They are minimally invasive techniques with a very low rate of complications and can be performed safely. CTa or MRa can be performed after an intra-articular injection of diluted contrast, but both techniques can also be performed after a single injection. As radiologists we s...

We reviewed 231 patients who had undergone total knee replacement with an AGC (Biomet) implant over a period of 2.5 years. After applying exclusion criteria and with some loss to follow-up, there were 144 patients available for study. These were divided into two groups; those who had received intra-articular steroid in the 11 months before surgery and those who had not. There were three deep in...

Objectives: To determine the mean change in pain and mouth opening after intra-articular corticosteroid injection mixed with local anesthetic patients of temporomandibular joint internalderangement (disc displacement without reduction).Materials Methods: A Quasi-experimental study was conducted at Oral MaxillofacialSurgery Department, Armed Forces Institute Dentistry (AFID), Rawalpindi; from Fe...

Facet joint injection is considered to be a safe procedure. There have been some reported cases of facet joint pyogenic infection and also 3 cases of facet joint infection spreading to paraspinal muscle and epidural space due to intra-articular injections. To the author's knowledge, paraspinal and epidural abscesses after facet joint injection without facet joint pyogenic infection have not bee...

The potential action of cytotoxic agents such as alkylating drugs and antimetabolites on the immune response and inflammatory process has suggested their trial in the treatment of rheumatic diseases. Nitrogen mustard was tried initially both by intravenous and intra-articular injection in the therapy of rheumatoid arthritis and gave variable responses (Jimenez Diaz, 1951; Jimenez Diaz, Lopez Ga...

introduction: rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is the most common autoimmune disease, leading to the destruction of the joints and causing pain, disability, and immobility in the patients. radiosynovectomy (rsv) has been applied as an effective treatment for the patients with resistant synovitis after failure of long-term pharmacotherapy and intra-articular steroid injection for more than 50 years. se...

clinical treatments for patients with TMJ-OA focused only on the relief from orofacial pain caused by progressive de-generation of the articular cartilage. Therefore, as a strategy for maintaining the homeostasis of the synovial joints, recent studies on preventive medicine for OA attempted to shift the metabolic status of the joints from the catabolic to the ana-bolic state using anabolic mate...

Acute synovitis was induced in one elbow joint of 300 to 400 g. guinea-pigs by the intra-articular injection of the polyene antibiotic Nystatin (10,000 i.u. in 0 1 ml. physiological saline) (Weissmann, Pras, and Rosenberg, 1967). At 24-hr intervals for up to 7 days the intensity of the synovitis was evaluated clinically and by scanning and external counting techniques and compared with the non-...