I asked my surgeon about the "laminectomy" as everyone had a different version of it. He said he actually didn't remove much bone, he drilled a hole that was 1mm bigger than the microdiscectomy hole, it allowed him better visualization due to the fact that it was a revision and he wanted to make sure he got the offending stuff out. He said he removed the entire nucleus pulposus and said it'd be extremely unlikely for it to reherniate.
I dont think it reherniated but I feel like something is definitely putting pressure on my sacral nerves whether it be from lost disk height or the remaining disk under load.
Would a fusion help me?
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Failed laminectomy? What next?
11-16-2011, 05:45 AM
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