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A Man with Back Pain and Weight Loss

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A 70 year old man presents with a subacute history of back pain and leg numbness, wasting and weakness. Examination and investigations are consistent with a lumbosacral plexus radiculopathy, the differential diagnosis of which is reviewed in detail.

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  1. MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK

    Matthew R. B. Evans MBBS & Hadi Manji MA, MD, FRCP

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Correspondence to Hadi Manji MA, MD, FRCP .

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  1. NHNN, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, London, United Kingdom

    Hadi Manji

  2. NHNN, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, London, United Kingdom

    Chris Turner

  3. NHNN, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, London, United Kingdom

    Matthew R. B. Evans

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Evans, M.R.B., Manji, H. (2017). A Man with Back Pain and Weight Loss. In: Manji, H., Turner, C., Evans, M. (eds) Neuromuscular Disease . Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2389-7_8

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