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The first patient being treated in a new neurosurgical clinic usually does not have a meningioma or an arterial aneurysm. This was also the case in Mannheim, where we had to care first for a 70-year-old man suffering from severe pain in his lower extremities due a rectum carcinoma. He was paraplegic and had lost all control of bladder function. He was obtunded due to a high dosage of alkaloids, which had to be given many times a day.
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Piotrowski, W., Panitz, C. (1975). Results After Open Cordotomy. In: Penzholz, H., Brock, M., Hamer, J. (eds) Brain Hypoxia. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66239-3_23
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