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Year |
2004 |
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Question Number |
167. |
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Category |
Spine |
Question
Figure 51 shows the MRI scan of a patient with lower extremity radiculopathy who has failed to respond to nonsurgical management. Surgical treatment should include
1- a paraspinal (Wiltse) muscle-splitting approach to the intertransverse interval and disk fragment excision.
2- foraminotomy, laminotomy, and diskectomy using a midline approach.
3- a one-level laminectomy without diskectomy using a midline approach.
4- an anterior retroperitoneal approach for disk excision.
5- laminotomy, diskectomy, and fusion without instrumentation through a costotransversectomy.
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