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My surgeon wants to fuse me from l3/l4 the write up says: diagnosis - spondylosis - lumbar wtih myelopathy & instability - lumbar. please explain?
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Ask surgeon: first. basically cord involvement *compression) from an orthopedic condition either acquired or traumatic that results in instability at L3-4
Answered 5/23/2016
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