Acute Non-ambulatory Tetraparesis Attributable to Cranial Cervical Intervertebral Disc Disease in a Cat

Overview

Journal J Feline Med Surg

Specialty Veterinary Medicine

Date 2007 Jun 15

PMID 17560823

Citations 5

Authors

Karl C Maritato

Jose A Colon

John V Mauterer

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Abstract

A 10-year-old domestic longhair cat was presented for acute non-ambulatory tetraparesis. Clinicopathologic diagnostics revealed no abnormalities. Cervical myelogram revealed an extradural compressive lesion consistent with intervertebral disc disease of the C2-C3 intervertebral disc space. Ventral slot decompression confirmed the presence of extruded intervertebral disc material into the vertebral canal of the C2-C3 intervertebral space. The patient succumbed to cardiorespiratory arrest 3 days postoperatively.

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