[Procedural pain assessment after spinal injections of corticosteroid].

Background: Spinal injections of corticosteroid are commonly performed by rheumatologists in their daily practice but little is known about the frequency, the intensity and the management of procedural pain observed in these osteoarticular injections in daily practice.

Aim: To evaluate the prevalence and intensity of pain caused by spinal injections.

Methods: In this observational prospective study, data were collected over 6 months, for up to 44 procedures (corticosteroid spinal injection).

[Osteoporotic vertebral fracture with spinal cord compression].

Osteoporotic vertebral fractures with neurologic complications are rarely reported in the literature. We report a case of a 66-year-old woman who developed an osteoporotic fracture of T6 followed one month later by spinal cord compression without aseptic vertebral osteonecrosis. Diagnosis is based on magnetic resonance imaging and examination of vertebral biopsy specimens.