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Underlying malignant conditions may be obscured in paraplegic patients and, similarly, cord damage may conceal deformity. Three patients illustrating this complication are described.
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Read at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Medical Society of Paraplegia, Athens, Greece, October, 1982.
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Pool, G. Pathological conditions obscured by paraplegia. Spinal Cord 22, 27–30 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1984.8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1984.8