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Good news for Unser Jr.

Thursday, Feb. 11, 1999 | 10:38 a.m.

SUN STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

The 12-year-old daughter of racing driver Al Unser Jr. has a good chance of recovering from a rare spinal condition, two Albuquerque neurosurgeons say.

"It is expected she will make a gradual, progressive recovery and become fully independent," Dr. Douglas Barrett said in a prepared statement released Wednesday through Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Edward C. Benzel said that recovery from the condition, called transverse myelitis, can occur in anything from two weeks to a year or more. Barrett said transverse myelitis is an inflammation of the spinal cord caused by an attack by the body's own immune system.

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