An Unusual Case of Radicular Pain Caused by Bilateral Lumbar Synovial Cyst: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

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(a, b) Fluoroscopic images obtained during the aspiration and infiltration of the synovial cyst. The end of the needle was slightly bent to ease the access due to the morphology of the cyst. In (c) and (d), we can observe the cyst contents inside the syringe and the subsequent infiltration (2 cc of betamethasone + 2 cc of mepivacaine).

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