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Since I am supposed to give the points to the most helpful answerer, here you go. Thank you Marga and Ingrid for your support as well. 3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer
Yes, it is a displacement. As far as I understand the meaning of listhesis is "slip", so it might redundant to use displacement? I found "step-off" in in English reference texts. Would "step-off" be fine?: "The patient had been operated on a listhesis with a minimal step-off and a significant vertebral stenosis L3/4 some months ago."
Ich dachte daran, die "Stufe" wegzulassen, es ist aber im Text ein beschreibendes Element, eben dass man eine "Stufe" oder eine "Kante" sieht bzw. tasten kann. Im Operationsbericht ist dann nochmals die Rede davon, dass die Stufe ertastet wird.
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minimal listhesis
Explanation: or 'early stage listhesis' ? just a couple of suggstions....
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"What is L4-5 Lateral Listhesis? Reverse listhesis of L3-4 and L4-5? What is lateral listhesis of the L3? What is minimal posterior listhesis? ..."
Sometimes if the listhesis is bad enough, you will need surgery even if you’re not having a lot of symptoms because essentially you are guaranteed to get symptoms later on. Here is one that’s a little more subtle, but you can still see this comes down and then there is a step-off back to here. This is a grade I, this doesn’t necessarily need surgery if it’s a grade I, but it this slips 50% or more, then you have to fuse it, and can actually slide all the way out the front, and the operations to fix that are associated with a high degree of sexual dysfunction afterwards, so they are not very much fun and we try not to let them get that far. http://www.ccspublishing.com/journals5a/spondylolisthesis.ht...
One of my colleague’s sons was a college football player who was complaining of back pain. I examined him and thought I could feel a step off between the two lowest spinous processes in his low back. An x-ray of his spine confirmed my suspicion that he had spondylolisthesis at L5-S1. http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:voY6x8RTIvwJ:www.sunris...
Marga Shaw Local time: 00:06 Specializes in field Native speaker of: German PRO pts in category: 367
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Asker: Thank you, Marga! Unfortunately, I cannot split points, and I am supposed to grade the most helpful answerer. This was David, since he was available for discussion right away. I hope you understand.
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