Publications by authors named "Alexandra Macleod"
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- A six-year-old spayed female Siberian Husky presented with cervical pain, ataxia, respiratory changes, and significant weight loss, leading to a battery of diagnostic tests.
- Findings indicated serious health issues, including spinal myelopathy and signs suggestive of metastatic carcinoma, prompting humane euthanasia and further investigation through necropsy.
- The necropsy revealed multiple tumors consistent with cholangiocellular carcinoma, highlighting challenges in prior diagnostics and an unusual presentation with cervical pain likely linked to spinal metastasis.
Ultrasonography is the most commonly used diagnostic imaging tool for gallbladder disease in veterinary medicine. Primary gallbladder neoplasia is an uncommon finding with variable prognosis for which no studies have been published describing their ultrasonographic appearance and diagnosis. This retrospective, multicenter, case series study examines the ultrasonographic appearance of gallbladder neoplasia with histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnoses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Children who have experienced an accidental injury are at increased risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder. It is, therefore, essential that strategies are developed to aid in the early identification of children at risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology after an accident. The aim of this study was to examine the ability of the Child Trauma Screening Questionnaire to predict children at risk of developing distressing posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms 1 and 6 months after a traumatic accident.
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