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Septic arthritis is a recognised complication of rheumatoid arthritis but has not been well described in sero-negative spondarthritis. We report 3 patients with sero-negative inflammatory joint disease who developed joint sepsis early in the course of the disease. In none was there a recognisable source of infection. Two cases were complicated by osteomyelitis and in one the sepsis has been recurrent over thirty years.
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Barker, C.S., Symmons, D.P.M., Scott, D.L. et al. Joint sepsis as a complication of sero-negative arthritis. Clin Rheumatol 4, 51–54 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02032317
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