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What Does This MRI Report Of Spine Indicate?
I ve recently had an MRI of my spine. A little background.........in 2012 I had a fusion done at L4-L5 S-1. I had a complication the days following the . An arterial bleed in the space of the fusion. They went back in, stopped the bleeding and evacuated a blood clot that formed on my L4 nerve. After 1 year they determined my nerve damage was permanent. I ve had numbness on my left side, hip to foot. Recently I ve had new numbness from the bottom of my foot to my heel (the n top of my foot has been numb since surgery). Also, now the top of my thigh is numb too. The MRI revealed the following: L3-4 Partial disc desiccation and diffuse annular bulge. Moderate facet arthropathy and ligamentous flavum hypertrophy. What exactly does that mean??/ Thanks, Lori
Tue, 29 Mar 2016
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I really appreciate your concern, MIR finding are suggestive of disk degeneration pathological changes, detail of description of findings could be lenghty and it is not possible to describe here in short it is pathological changes seen (Disease condition of spinal disk) hope this information helps.
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I really appreciate your concern, MIR finding are suggestive of disk degeneration pathological changes, detail of description of findings could be lenghty and it is not possible to describe here in short it is pathological changes seen (Disease condition of spinal disk) hope this information helps.
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