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What is "diffuse disc space narrowing from l1 to l5-s1 with marginal osteophytes arising from the vertebral endplates."?
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(osteo)arthritis: Whoever ordered xrays and gave you results should have explained results to you (or patient). More important than xray interpretation (no offense intended towards radiology colleagues) is why xray ordered in first place. While xrays may show evidence of arthritis, we treat patient & pain/debility, not xray. Sometimes, there can be lots of pain despite normal xray. Other times, no pain w/coincidenc
Answered 11/28/2015
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