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- Title
CT myelography of the thoraco-lumbar spine in 8 dogs with degenerative myelopathy.
- Authors
Jones, Jeryl C.; Inzana, Karen D.; Rossmeisl, John H.; Bergman, Robert L.; Wells, Tana; Butler, Katherine
- Abstract
CT myelography of the T11-L2 region was performed in 8 large-breed dogs with a clinical diagnosis of degenerative myelopathy (DM) and 3 large-breed dogs that were clinically normal. CT myelographic characteristics were recorded for each dog, at each disc level. Area measurements of the spinal cord, dural sac, vertebral canal, and vertebral body were recorded at 4 slice locations for each disc level. Mean area ratios were calculated and graphically compared, by slice location and group. In all dogs, CT myelography identified morphologic abnormalities that were not suspected from conventional myelograms. Characteristics observed with higher frequency in DM versus normal dogs were: spinal stenosis, disc protrusion, focal attenuation of the subarachnoid space, spinal cord deformity, small spinal cord, and paraspinal muscle atrophy. Mean spinal cord:dural sac, spinal cord:vertebral canal, dural sac: vertebral canal, and vertebral canal:vertebral body ratios were smaller in DM versus normal dogs at more than one disc level. Some CT myelographic characteristics in DM dogs were similar to those previously reported in humans, dogs and horses with stenotic myelopathy.
- Subjects
MYELOGRAPHY; LABORATORY dogs; SPINAL cord radiography; CENTRAL nervous system; CLINICAL medicine; CONTRAST media
- Publication
Journal of Veterinary Science, 2005, Vol 6, Issue 4, p341
- ISSN
1229-845X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4142/jvs.2005.6.4.341