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Volume 23, Number 3—March 2017
Research Letter

Fungal Contamination of Methylprednisolone Causing Recurrent Lumbosacral Intradural Abscess

Jaclyn J. RenfrowComments to Author , Mark B. Frenkel, and Wesley Hsu
Author affiliations: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

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Intraoperative image demonstrating postevacuation cauda equina nerve roots that are grossly edematous and adherent (arrow), consistent with arachnoiditis, in a patient with recurrent infection from fungal-contaminated methylprednisolone, North Carolina, USA, 2015.

Figure. Intraoperative image demonstrating postevacuation cauda equina nerve roots that are grossly edematous and adherent (arrow), consistent with arachnoiditis, in a patient with recurrent infection from fungal-contaminated methylprednisolone, North Carolina, USA, 2015.

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