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Old 11-08-2024, 09:42 AM
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I've heard of vertebral disk replacement (artificial disks), but I've never heard of a vertebral transplant from one person to another. Any more information?
Don't really know more than that, sorry. Had a bone spur on the inside of a vertebra that was growing into my spinal cord. They removed mine and replaced it with the one from a cadaver.
The hospital was a teaching hospital so they had easy access to body parts.