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Acute Intervertebral Disc Extrusion in a Cat: Clinical and MRI Findings

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Journal J Feline Med Surg
Specialty Veterinary Medicine
Date 2002 Mar 1
PMID 11869056
Citations 16
Authors
D Lu
C R Lamb
K Wesselingh
M P Targett
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Abstract

A 5 year old, neutered male, domestic shorthaired cat had acute left hemiparesis and Horner's syndrome. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a loss of the normal signal from the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc at C3/4, narrowing of the ventral subarachnoid space and slight dorsal displacement of the spinal cord and a focal hyperintense lesion affecting the left side of the spinal cord at the same level. The presumptive diagnosis was focal spinal cord oedema associated with intervertebral disc extrusion. A traumatic aetiology was suspected. The cat was treated conservatively and improved gradually over a period of 6 months.

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