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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

A 2011 meta-analysis in the journal of Academic Emergency Medicine found ESR, CRP, and PCT were not acutely useful in the diagnosis of septic arthritis due to wildly varying sensitivities and specificities between studies. Identifying serious causes of back pain: cancer, infection, fracture. Cleve Clin J Med. 2008 Aug;75(8):557-66.