Clinical rheumatology
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The radiographic findings and clinical outcome of 54 patients having a myelogram at the request of the Department of Rheumatology over a period of five years are described. Fortynine of the patients had either clinical features of an intervertebral disc protrusion or chronic back pain of obscure aetiology. ⋯ No unexpected malignancies were found. Morbidity was common, but usually mild.