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  • Title: Observation of a secondary compressive lesion after treatment of caudal cervical spondylomyelopathy in a dog.
    Author: Wilson ER, Aron DN, Roberts RE.
    Journal: J Am Vet Med Assoc; 1994 Nov 01; 205(9):1297-9. PubMed ID: 7698941.
    Abstract:
    In a 7-year-old Doberman Pinscher with an atactic gait, neurologic examination revealed tetraparesis, conscious proprioceptive deficits, and rigid ventral flexion of the neck. Radiography and myelography revealed a ventral, extradural, dynamic compressive lesion between C6 and C7. Distraction decompression was performed, using cancellous bone screws and methylmethacrylate. After initial improvement, clinical signs recurred 2 weeks after surgery and progressed until the dog was euthanatized 6 weeks after surgery. Postmortem myelography revealed an extradural compressive lesion adjacent to the implant, between C5 and C6. Secondary compressive lesions induced by surgical or biomechanical alterations of the cervical portion of the spine may be complications of treatment of caudal cervical spondylomyelopathy.
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