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In a case of "conjoined" nerve roots with herniated nucleus pulposus, the computed tomographic findings were inconclusive, if not misleading. Myelography alone was also not definitive. Correlation of these two studies allowed a successful surgical approach.
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Gebarski et al. (1984) studied this question.
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