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The purpose of this review is to illustrate, some for the first time, a variety of gas collections in lumbar facet joints and intervertebral discs and in the sacroiliac joint.
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Yetkin, Z., Chintapalli, K., Daniels, D.L. et al. Gas in spinal articulations. Neuroradiology 28, 150–153 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327888
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