Question 3: Following discoidectomy, are there changes that occur which may lead to subsequent clinical problems, specifically: 1.) Can lateral bony entrapment occur following removal of disc material? 2.) Recurrent disc extrusion at same level? 3.) At new level? 4.) Segmental arachnoiditis? 5.) Spinal stenosis? 6.) Discitis? 7.) Instability?
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John W. Frymoyer (1981) studied this question.