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The literature of the last decade concerning the management and outlook of paraplegia has been focused on traumatic or other ‘benign’ causes. This paper describes a series of 74 patients with paraplegia due to malignant disease, one of the other most common causes of paraplegia.
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van Woerkom-Eijkenboom, W., Braakman, R. Paraplegia due to spinal epidural neoplasia. Spinal Cord 19, 100–106 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1981.23
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