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Sounds very common sense-ish to me. It's nice to have someone be able to evaluate all the findings, summarize them and especially say the problem is not primarily your back and very well could be a focal problem in your leg. The lack of pulse is a major tip-off and gets back to the necessity for speaking with a vascular surgeon (not that you do or do not need surgery!). The EMG's are just okay at sometimes stating that there is a problem with a nerve or root, but really is just a smoking gun when it comes to defining causation as it doesn't say why the problem is there. It is only a small piece of the puzzle.
All of the pieces of the puzzle really need to add up, history of injury, subjective complaints, clinical, imaging findings and special tests findings to give you your best chance at an early correct diagnoses, oh yeah, and someone who can put it all together for you. And it sounds like you got just that with the neurosurgeons (whose residencey is just about the longest of all the medical specialists).
Sounds like you dodged a major bullet, avoiding a potentially needless surgery. Great news!
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