Comparison of Two Surgical Techniques for the Treatment of Canine Disc Associated-Cervical Spondylomyelopathy.

Objective: To compare prosthetic disc and vertebral distraction stabilization in dogs with disc-associated cervical spondylomyelopathy (DA-CSM).

Study Design: A retrospective clinical study.

Animals: 25 dogs.

Clinical, magnetic resonance imaging and histologic findings of canine thoracolumbar discal pseudocyst: 8 cases (2014-2019).

Objective: To report the clinical and MRI features, and histologic findings of thoracolumbar discal pseudocyst in dogs.

Materials And Methods: The records of eight dogs with thoracolumbar discal cyst-like structures were retrospectively collected to record their clinical signs, MRI features and surgical and histologic findings.

Results: Eight dogs with surgically and histologically confirmed thoracolumbar discal pseudocysts were included in the case series.

Papillary meningioma in the dog: A clinicopathological case series study.

Papillary meningioma (PM) is one of the most aggressive variants of meningioma in humans and classified as grade III by WHO system. To date, the biological behavior of PM is still not clear in dogs. This study investigated the correlation between histopathological findings of 16 canine PMs and follow up data.

Microcystic meningioma of the fourth ventricle in a dog.

A 5-year-old female cross-breed dog was presented with a 1-month history of progressive changes in the posture of the head and in the gait. At neurological examination the dog showed a central vestibular syndrome lateralized to the left. MRI showed a space occupying lesion within the fourth ventricle, characterized by iso- to hypointensity in T1 and hyperintensity in T2 with a heterogeneous contrast uptake.

A preliminary investigation of the relationship between the "moment of resistance" of the canine spine, and the frequency of traumatic vertebral lesions at different spinal levels.

The aims of this work were to re-evaluate the moments of resistance (MoRs) of the vertebral column proposed by Slijper (1946) in the dog and to study the relationship between the MoRs and the frequency distribution of vertebral traumas in the same species. The spine (C2-L7) of four dogs was measured to obtain MoRs and subsequently scanned with a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometer (DXA). These findings were then analysed retrospectively the frequency distribution of canine vertebral fractures and luxations, diagnosed radiographically at a referral practice.