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CT-guided percutaneous steroid injection for management of inflammatory arthropathy of the temporomandibular joint in children.

Cahill AM, Baskin KM, Kaye RD, Arabshahi B, Cron RQ, Dewitt EM, Bilaniuk L, Towbin RB

Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

OBJECTIVE: The purposes of this study were to retrospectively review an injection technique, to develop a grading system for evaluation of imaging findings, and to report preliminary outcome related to percutaneous CT-guided steroid injection into the temporomandibular joints of children with inflammatory arthropathy. CONCLUSION: CT-guided steroid injection into the temporomandibular joint of children with inflammatory arthropathy results in clinical and imaging improvement in a substantial proportion of children treated.

Published 20 December 2006 in AJR Am J Roentgenol, 188(1): 182-6.
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