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Cancer
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Saddle anesthesia
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Unexplained weight loss
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Loss of anal sphincter tone
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Immunosuppression
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Major motor weakness in lower extremities
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Prolonged use of steroids
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Fever
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Intravenous drug use
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Vertebral tenderness
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Urinary tract infection
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Limited spinal range of motion
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Pain that is increased or unrelieved by rest
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Neurologic findings persisting beyond one month
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Fever
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Significant trauma related to age (e.g., fall from a height or motor vehicle accident in a young patient, minor fall or heavy lifting in a potentially osteoporotic or older patient or a person with possible osteoporosis)
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Bladder or bowel incontinence
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Urinary retention (with overflow incontinence)
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