just a guess....foraminal lamina? nm

• s/l "five hood lamina or spinous process" - abby
  • five might mean L5. Can you hear sm - nm
    • continued..... - abby
  • just a guess....foraminal lamina? nm - NYMT2
    • Thanks for the suggestion! - abby

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This patient had some lumbar spine x-rays which showed only a "five hood lamina" or spinous process.....

Has anyone heard of anything like "five hood lamina?"

Thanks!!

Abby

This is listed under MRI findings:

"Disk material within the (s/l foraminal butts), but does not appear to compress the nerve root sheath.

Any ideas?  TIA

typing an ortho report; doc states on PE that on examination of his neck "foraminal coach maneuvers" were negative.

I know I am responding to a very old post, but those of you who use "neural foraminal" as opposed to "neuroforaminal" in your transcriptions are correct.  I am a Certified Court Reporter in the state of Texas and a Registered Professional Court Reporter at the national level.  I've been so-licensed for 25 years, and I always see the two-word error.  And it's AMAZING how often the radiologists are incorrect and ESPECIALLY their staff.  Though using the medical combining forms is often the most common, in this case, it is incorrect.  But, like some of the others said in their posts, who's going to argue with the doc?

Congrats on standing up for yourself!

I know this has been discussed before, but I have never typed anything except "neural foraminal," and when I first started with this particular account, all the templates had "neural foraminal stenosis" as one of the headings on the spine CTs and MRIs.

Now the "billing and coding specialist" who is in charge of the account (and who is obviously not a trained transcriptionist - she typed "flebolith" on one report I saw), has changed all the templates to "neuroforaminal," and when I just changed them back, she sent me a nasty little note saying "Don't change the templates."

Well, you should have seen the sorry state the templates were in when I started here. I have spent hours of my OWN time (I am paid by the line) not only cleaning up the templates but also standardizing the naming of the templates so that they can be found easily using the wild card notation.

I am tempted to send an email back saying, "Okay, I'll leave them that way, but 'neuroforaminal' is incorrect" but I am leaving this account as soon as they have my replacement trained.

In fact, I just sent it. I'm leaving, got nothing to lose, and actually have more work than I can comfortably handle right now. I really wish she would tell me she didn't need me any more.

Oh, I just got her reply: "Actually, no it is not [incorrect].  That is how it was always spelled before we hired ____________ [MTSO] and that is how all of the rads wanted it spelled."

So be it.

there must be two openings in the nasal cavity.  Ostium means opening.  Meatus means opening also.  So if it is as you say, then ostium (opening) meatal (opening) complex is what you are referring to.   Plus that, there is no such word as ostio. 

I was referring to the osteum (bone) and meatus (opening) or the osteomeatal complex of the nose.   

Just guessing here, but first sentence might be uterus normal tone, size and position.  Second sentence - about *____ dilated, should probably be  a number, not "already"  Uterus was sounded to 10 cm.   Sorry, can't help with the next sentence.

You're right on the "marrow" portions, but the only thing I can even hazard a guess at on the morphology is "an echoic." 

Maybe this will help - just saw your post and feel your pain!