Thread: Help I have back pain, need to understand x ray report
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Old 09-08-2012, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by majesticgoddess View Post
I need help understang my ex ray report.
It says: Deffused congenital narrowing of the spinal canal is present.

Ther is a suggestion of epidural limpomatotsis within the lower lumbar spinal canal at L4 and L5 leveles and within the upper sacral canal.
A midline left paramedian extrusion is present at T12 L1. Ther is no obvious impingment on the coard; sis with congental narrowing of the canal.
However the study and the coard itself is not well seen.
A midline disk protruion at L4-5s mild spinal canal stenoThere i.
Please help me to understand this x ray report.
Whoever authorised the x-rays, probably your GP, should have received an explanation note from the radiologist.
It is up to this doctor to explain it to you, and where you go from there.
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