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Can you tell me what status post-lower cervical spine fusion and diskectomy mean.?
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Means you have had -: Surgery on your c. Spine in form of a fusion and removal of a disk, at which ever level it was done.
Answered 12/28/2013
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Sure: It means the patient has undergone a anterior cervical discectomy and fusion in the lower neck. Check out spine-health.Com.
Answered 2/14/2014
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