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Old 05-01-2011, 04:38 AM
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My wife's disc was like that. She tried a discectomy anyway. It was astronomically successful. Sadly, it was only successful for 3 months before the disc collapse got worse and she had leg pain on the other side. Her ADR surgery was successful. In retrospect, her's was one of the cases in which jumping straight to ADR would have been better. Bertagnoli told us that before her discectomy, but we thought we'd try anyway.

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1997 MVA
2000 L4-5 Microdiscectomy/laminotomy
2001 L5-S1 Micro-d/lami
2002 L4-S1 Charite' ADR - SUCCESS!
2009 C3-C4, C5-C6-C7, T1-T2 ProDisc-C Nova
Summer 2009, more bad thoracic discs!
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