Hi Alan, I merged your previous topic about thoracic surgeries with this one. Sorry no one responded; but you are right -- thoracic surgeries are rare, difficult and risky. The ones we have read about within this community were primarily due to to trauma or infection. As you know, many problems can refer to the T spine, but may not originate there. What did the previous imaging of the T spine show? Any abnormal pathology?!
Sent you a PM, got yours, talk to you soon. Hang tough, brother! Off to bed soon...