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A member asked:

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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Dr. Eric Weisman answered

Specializes in Neurology

Ask surgeon: first. basically cord involvement *compression) from an orthopedic condition either acquired or traumatic that results in instability at L3-4

Dr Fowler and another doctor agreed

Answered 5/23/2016

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