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Image used with permission from Medtronic
Figure 4.2
This drawing illustrates different phases of disc disease. Discs may degener-
ate with or without accompanying bony outgrowths (osteophytes). Sometimes
the disc degeneration will lead to a disc prolapse (disc herniation). See
Figure 4.1 for the different stages of disc herniation.
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