My mom sent me this about a min. invasive thoracic fusion. I guess as time goes by we may get better ways to do it. I know there is VATS, some fusion surgury Dr. Dickman does, and this with nuvasive. Time will tell. Bright side is that we avoid many of the adjacent problems that lumbar, cervical have.
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