Facetectomy
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Intervention | |
ICD-9-CM | 84.8 |
Facetectomy is a surgical procedure which involves decompression of a spinal nerve root. For example, it can be performed in severely resistant cases of cervical rhizalgia, where the cervical nerve roots within the intervertebral foramina are decompressed.[1]
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