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lumbar microdiskectomy - liz


Posted: Jan 12, 2010

When someone has a microdiskectomy at multiple levels, is it L3-4-5, L3-5, or L3-4 and L4-5 microdiskectomies?  I know I should know this but for the life of me my brain is not working this morning!

Thanks!

L3-4, L4-5 microdiscectomies - XanaX

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i can see how that's confusing, made me scratch my head. And, i'm pretty sure the disc is a C not a K --- hope this helps.

mircodiskectomies - catchup

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Mircrodiskectomies can be spelled with either a k or a c. Like you, I prefer disk. Anyway, I would format your question as L3-4 and L4-5 just to be clear. I think this is just a style thing, so there are afew correct versions!


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