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Painful plexopathies can result from inflammatory or malignany infiltration. Prostatic infiltration as describer here is rare. A biopsy is often required to confirm the diagnosis and ascertain the best treatment. Unfortunately the prognosis of infiltration such as this is poor.
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Lunn, M.P. (2017). A Man with an Insidious, Painful Mononeuropathy. In: Manji, H., Turner, C., Evans, M. (eds) Neuromuscular Disease . Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2389-7_17
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