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Unraveling the Outbreak of Fungal Infections Associated with Contaminated Steroid Injections
June 26th 2013Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describe pathologic findings from 40 case reports of fungal infection in patients who had been given contaminated epidural, paraspinal, or intra-articular steroid injections and correlate these findings with clinical and laboratory data. The report, published in the September issue of the American Journal of Pathology, alerts clinicians and the general public to the catastrophic dangers of contaminated epidural injections.
