i just read MRI written report from June 2009...
never saw it before...i don't understand a lot of it...
don't know if i want to...(that's kind of a joke)
it sounds bad..."severe rotatory scoliosis with degenerative disc and facet
disease throughout lumbar spine. There is foraminal narrowing at multiple levels,
and the spinal canal is distorted with relative narrowing, most severe at L4-L5"
is the "impression"
what i don't get is it says i don't have spinal stenosis, when a myleogram from
2004 said i have spinal stenosis...
this MRI report says things like "severe rotatory convex left thoracolumbar,
convex right lower lumbar scoliosis which distorts the anatomy"
it analyzes, as i guess all spinal MRI's do, at each level...at T11- T12, L1-L2,
L2-L3, L3-L4, L4-L5, and L5-S1...
it says (at L1-L2)"severe hypertrophic change in the right facet has mild mass effect upon
the thecal sac. There is no spinal or foraminal stenosis"
no stenosis??...why then did myleogram say i have "spinal stenosis" ????
it also says (at L2- L3) "the canal is distorted without evidence of stenosis.
Right foramen is narrowed"
there is repeated mention of "asymmetrical disc space narrowing".....
i am confused....lots of "narrowing" of all kinds of stuff, but no stenosis....??
jess
never saw it before...i don't understand a lot of it...
don't know if i want to...(that's kind of a joke)
it sounds bad..."severe rotatory scoliosis with degenerative disc and facet
disease throughout lumbar spine. There is foraminal narrowing at multiple levels,
and the spinal canal is distorted with relative narrowing, most severe at L4-L5"
is the "impression"
what i don't get is it says i don't have spinal stenosis, when a myleogram from
2004 said i have spinal stenosis...
this MRI report says things like "severe rotatory convex left thoracolumbar,
convex right lower lumbar scoliosis which distorts the anatomy"
it analyzes, as i guess all spinal MRI's do, at each level...at T11- T12, L1-L2,
L2-L3, L3-L4, L4-L5, and L5-S1...
it says (at L1-L2)"severe hypertrophic change in the right facet has mild mass effect upon
the thecal sac. There is no spinal or foraminal stenosis"
no stenosis??...why then did myleogram say i have "spinal stenosis" ????
it also says (at L2- L3) "the canal is distorted without evidence of stenosis.
Right foramen is narrowed"
there is repeated mention of "asymmetrical disc space narrowing".....
i am confused....lots of "narrowing" of all kinds of stuff, but no stenosis....??
jess
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