Just to add my 2 cents.....I do the anterior exposures for the neurosurgeons. We did a study of our own patients and this procedure (see URL) makes for some really happy people post op.
http://www.spineuniverse.com/display...rticle508.html
good luck....just another way to offer relief and ask questions to be a better informed patient.
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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