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thoracic or cervical disc herniation

Posted By: nm on 2009-03-31
In Reply to: 30 disc coniations? - M

Subject: thoracic or cervical disc herniation

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Subject: is it thoracic? Maybe TESI - thoracic epidural steroid injection? Just a guess - nm

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Subject: Is it L5/S1 or L5-S1 disk herniation?

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Subject: Would it be appropriate to say cervical paraspinal or cervical paraspinous? SM. TIA.

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Subject: pretty simple disk herniation


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Subject: anyone, eh?........we know disk/disc....sm

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Subject: Disc or disk

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