A client presents to the pain clinic for a steroid injection into the spine due to increasing pain around the joints. The health care provider tells the client, "You have inflammation where your tendons/ligaments insert into the bone
This injection should help." The nurse assisting with the procedure recognizes this to be characteristic of:
A) Sacroiliitis
B) Calcinosis
C) Excessive bone turnover
D) Autoimmune etiology
Ans: A
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Sacroiliitis is a pathologic hallmark of the spondyloarthropathies. Calcinosis is associated with scleroderma. The spondyloarthropathies do not involve bone turnover, and an autoimmune etiology has not been demonstrated.
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A) syrup B) solution C) suspension D) elixir