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they say spina bifida occulta. Occulta is just a milder form of spina bifida. Scoliosis is a different diagnosis, curvature of the spine.
I know. This patient does have scoliosis which he mentions earlier, but sm - Help
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here in physical exam he says what sounds like spinal cult or spine occult scoliosis is noted. Thanks for your input :)
Hi, I have a doctor who is saying scoli-ose (which i know is not right), but he says it with a long o sound. Does anyone know the correct spelling?? I have searched everything and cannot find a correct spelling. ...
Does all of this make sense and also is L4-5, S1 correct. The doctor says L4 5 S1. tia. this is a new one for me.
X-rays show mild thoracodorsal scoliosis, but with severe degenerative changes L4-5, S1 with spondylolisthesis at L4-5. ...
I know that can't be what the dr. is dictating, but it sure sounds like it. "The patient has lumbar pain. She has an x-ray that indicates (s/l lethal) scoliosis and mild degenerative changes at multiple levels." Any ideas? ...
I find many references to the McKenzie exercises for backs, but nothing specifically for "McKenzie brace." Any help would be appreciated. I have exhausted all resources. ...
I have always typed "C-spine, T-spine, and LS-spine," but today i came across something that made me question it. Should i be using the hyphen or not???? ...
D: A small incision was carried out from C2 to C1. Hemostasis was obtained with bipolar and Bovie cauterization. __________ was placed in the wound and a supraperiosteal dissection was carried out, identifying the lamina of C3 to C7.The blank, after listening four hundred times, still sounds like "wheat liner" but this guy speaks at the speed of sound, so I am stumped and unfamiliar with ortho surgery.Any help is gratefully appreciated. ...
text: The patient is status post diskectomy, _________ interbody fusion, with an anterior fixation plate extending from C4 to C6.
sounds like salunite? ...
X-ray findings were obtained and reviewed today. These demonstrate a solid fusion of his distal radius with excellent consolidation of all his carpal bones. His pisiform is in excellent conjunction with the radius itself; the "dairy J"? appears to be well-preserved. There is callus formation over the radius.
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"Dairy J" ...
Sentence dictated as "She also has a small C5/6 {s/l DISS}."
He's really emphasizing the "ISS" sound. I know it would make sence for it to be disc, but the sentence sounds incomplete to me? I feel like there should be herniation or protrusion or bulging at the end of the sentence if it were "disc"? Could the "diss" sounding word be short for something?
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Multilevel mild disc _____ are present. There is minimal disc bulging at C4-5.
I cannot give a s/l because he is running it together but the word does end in "cations," if that helps.
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There is noted to be significant degenerative changes at the L5-S1 level on the pelvic x-ray. Visualization of the more **collateral** lumbar spine is not able to observed on this x-ray. tia ...
Impression: S/L Flowing anterior marginal osteophytes from C5 to C7; this may reflect underlying diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.
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has anybody ever heard of this? s/l Evo 3C ?? many thanks
Transverse process was decorticated, along with the sacral ala bilaterally, then irrigated with copious amounts of irrigation.
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I have sent him for a CBC with a differential, ESR, and a CRP to evaluate and make sure that he has not (s/l aseated) his spine and caused an infection. ...
This is used twice in report and I can't find anything that comes close. The sentence is : There are inflammatory changes and s/l flam-on around the C4 to C5 vertebral bodies. Any help is appreciated! ...
Sentence is: Right posterior fusion L4-5, S1 with __________ screw between S1 and L5.
s/l "axfix" He says it very clearly, almost like two words "axe" and then "fix".
Thanks for any help!
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