Do oral NSAIDs and steroids have an effect on how you interpret synovial fluid leukocyte count?

Topics: Rheumatology • General Rheumatology • Inflammatory arthritis • Synovial fluid

For example, if clinical history is supportive of inflammatory arthritis, but synovial fluid analysis is non-inflammatory (i.e <2000 WBC) could this be related to active NSAID and/or steroid use?

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