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Originally Posted by johannakat
no rib removal = 55% success rate, somewaht less traumatic surgery
rib removal = 70% success rate, slightly more traumatic surgery
roughly speaking, assuming a competant surgeon, and quoting my neurologist, here, who is a TOS expert, and NOT a surgeon...just sees a lot of people pre and post op.
good luck, and yes, second opinion= good idea!!! for any major medical procedure, as long as it comes from a competant TOS doc.
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Thank you Jokat for your info. I know that you did a tremendous amount of research to determine your own surgical choices and we are benefiting by your investigations. But I am confused as I was told, especially by Dr Sanders, that the surgery w. rib removal is a MUCH bigger surgery and that it involves MUCH more drastic recovery. I thought that it was the reason to try to avoid rib removal if a smaller surgery would be successful. But if it's only slightly more traumatic than I guess there is not much reason to try to avoid it. hmmm.