METRIZAMIDE MYELOGRAPHY IN FIVE DOGS AND TWO CATS WITH SUSPECTED SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS |
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Authors: | Jerry W. Northington DVM |
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Affiliation: | Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, where Dr. Northington is an Instructor in the Section of Neurology. |
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Abstract: | Metrizamide myelography was used in five dogs and two cats with signs of spinal cord disease. The history, clinical signs, cerebrospinal fluid examination, and myelography supported a presumptive diagnosis of spinal cord neoplasia in all seven animals. Myelography demonstrated a deviation of the subarachnoid space in each of them. Five of the animals had an expansile intramedullary spinal cord lesion causing thinning and peripheral deviation of the subarachnoid space. Two had extramedullary lesions causing a central deviation of the subarachnoid space. Spinal cord tumors in six of the seven animals were confirmed by necropsy or surgical excision and histopathologic examination. In the seventh animal, a spinal cord fungal grapuloma was diagnosed by necropsy. |
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Keywords: | Metrizamide myelography spinal cord neoplasms cryptococcosis dog cat |
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