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History

Figure 1 for case Distended facet sign — Figure 1

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Discussion

51 year old clinically with adjacent segment disease (instability adjacent to a spinal fusion) at the L3-4 level above his fusions. He wanted to know if I thought he had the distended facet sign - indicating segmental instability - The distended facet sign: an indicator of position-dependent spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis

Diagnosis

Distended facet sign

Phillip Tirman, MD

Courtesy

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