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An unusual but classic cause of hand numbness: Pancoast tumour
  1. Elena Thampy1,
  2. Sujith V Cherian2
  1. 1 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston-McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
  2. 2 Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston-McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Sujith V Cherian, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston-McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA; sujithvcherian{at}gmail.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2017-134995

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    • Contributors ET: directly involved with the patient care and prepared the manuscript. SVC: performed literature search and prepared the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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