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Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 13
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 13
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What do my Spine MRI results mean?
I have severe neck pain for the last 3 weeks and it radiates down to my right arm and right shoulder. My doctor sent me for a mri of the spine and these are my results.
The cervical cord is not enlarged and shows no evidence of signal abnormality.
There is a right C3-4 disc herniation resulting in encroachment on the subarachnoid space and right-sided foraminal narrowing.
There is a right C4-5 herniated disc causing encroachment upon the subarchnoid space and marked right-sided foraminal narrowing.
At the C5-6 level, there is a small left sided disc herniation causing mild encroachment upon the subarchnoid space foraminal compatible with asymmetric bulge/lateral herniation.
There is no evicendce of cord adema or neoplasm.
IMPRESSION:
1)right sided herniation discs at C3-4 and C4-5 which also result in foraminal narrowing.
2) small left herniation at C5-6
3) buldging of the C6-7 disc slightly asymmetric to the right resulting in right sided foraminal narrowing.
Is this really bad?
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