Sacro-iliac Joint Disease in Drug Abusers: the Role of Bone Scintigraphy

Overview

Journal Eur J Nucl Med

Specialty Nuclear Medicine

Date 1980 Oct 1

PMID 7215369

Citations 2

Authors

V LOPEZ-MAJANO

D B Miskew

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Abstract

Bone scintigrams demonstrated increased uptake in the sacroiliac joint in twenty drug addicts with low back pain and signs of localized sepsis. The localization of the disease was decisive for the orthopedist in the aspiration of the affected joint.

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