C-spine looks like pretty significant issues... are they talking about doing C7-T1 too?
I'm not a doctor, yada, yada, yada, but I've seen people with similar images told that lumbar surgery would be dangerous with such substantial cord impingement in the neck. (They move you around while you are out... you have your head kicked back and are intubated for hours.) I've seen presentations at conferences showing serious complications w/spinal cord injuries in c-spine related to lumbar surgeries. Unless there is reason to believe that there are no c-spine issues, I would not have lumbar surgery without checking c-spine too, just for the reasons I just mentioned.
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