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Weakness associated with spinal subpial myelopathy in a weimaraner puppy
Author(s) -
COMONT P. S. V.,
PALMER A. C.,
WILLIAMS A. E.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.1988.tb02296.x
Subject(s) - medicine , puppy , spinal cord , myelopathy , weakness , internal capsule , anatomy , medulla , myelin , cerebellum , central nervous system , white matter , magnetic resonance imaging , radiology , ecology , psychiatry , biology
Clinical and pathological features are described in an eight‐week‐old weimaraner puppy which showed hindleg weakness and subpial myelin depletion in the spinal cord. The myelopathy was accompanied by pial thickening, vacuolation of sensory neurons in the spinal cord and of neurons in the medulla. Swollen axons occurred in the spinal cord, cerebellum and internal capsule. Comparisons are made between this case and a recently recorded form of hypomyelination in weimaraner dogs.