text: The patient is status post diskectomy, _________ interbody fusion, with an anterior fixation plate extending from C4 to C6.
sounds like salunite? ...
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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Impression: S/L Flowing anterior marginal osteophytes from C5 to C7; this may reflect underlying diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.
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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! ...
There was spurring all along the cervical spine with the s/l (rippling accommodation) in the thecal sac that was associated with spurs, disc space narrowing, degeneration and chronic bulging discs. ...
Hi, Can anyone tell me if cervalgia is a correct word? I have several providers who continually clearly say cervalgia... but I have found resources that correct it to cervicalgia. thank you so much!! ...
has anyone heard of this 'Suboxone' Suboxone cervical dilatation 7 cm; however, due to the fetal bradycardia without any recovery, it was decided to perform stat cesarean section.
also i tried to do a search and it's not bringing up where i can put the word on word help?? has something changed?
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Patient has strain of left erector spinae, trapezia, and levator scapulae at the 2nd (s/l) "verte cervical porticullis." It actually sounds like "urta cervical", but I am assuming there is a v in there. Any thoughts? ...
Patient is complaining of right wrist, right shoulder, and neck pain. In diagnosis he says "mild cervical (s/l) ant-ro-peas-el strain. Any ideas what ant-ro-peas-el could be? ...
Okay, I'm stuck. This doc is dictating his physical exam and is talking about the cervical spine rom. "Full range of motion of the cervical spine to flexion, extension, rotation, side bending, and (s/l) discompression sign."
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This is a cervical facet joint injection and doc says "Once within the facet joint, a combination of 40 mg of Kenalog, 1 mL of Marcaine, and 1 mL of lidocaine was injected intraarticularly and then at ____ point." It sounds like he is saying "Brogda's point" and he is saying this rather clearly. I posted this question once before about 2 years ago and someone suggested Gerota's point, but everything I find on Gerota's tells me that it is near the kidneys and not the ne ...
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???? ...
The sentance reads - __________ views shows occipital cervical complex with no obvious evidence of arthritic change.
The blank sounds like "L spine", but since this is of the occipital region I don't think it would be that.
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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. ...
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.
Please HELP!!!!
"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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