Period of pain relief after disc surgery
- followed by increasing back pain & occasional leg pain
Pain may be disproportionate to physical findings
Low grade fever common
SLR & femoral stretch tests elicit pain in some cases
Developmental hamartoma in which areas of the skeleton fail to mature normally
- remain indefinitely as immature, poorly mineralized trabeculae
Hamartoma of bone and fibrous tissue
Rare triad of
1. Fibrous Dysplasia
A chronic systemic, autoimmune inflammatory disease of unknown cause
1% of population
M:F = 1:3
Peak onset 40 years
Most common inflammatory arthropathy
Autoimmune
- trigger not identified
- cell mediated immune response