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Musculoskeletal Pain/Rehabilitation

Short-Term Outcomes of Intraarticular Corticosteroid Injection into the Lumbar Facet Joint According to the Findings of Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging

Min Cheol Chang1 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Republic of KoreaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7629-7213View further author information
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Seoyon Yang2 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, Ewha Woman’s University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Republic of KoreaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 2357-2362 | Received 10 May 2024, Accepted 26 Jun 2024, Published online: 09 Jul 2024

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