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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1978-11-18
pubmed:abstractText
Two dogs that suddenly developed neurologic signs indicating a severe cervical spinal cord lesion were found at necropsy to have necrotizing myelopathy secondary to nucleus pulposus embolism. One dog had embolism of arteries and veins; in the other dog, veins alone were embolized. Each dog had early degeneration and extrusion of the C6--7 disk, from which emboli originated. In one dog, arterial emboli apparently entered inflammatory vasculature in the anulus fibrosus and were forced by extrusion back through the arterial system to the radicular artery and then to the cord. Venous embolism occurred secondarily to arterial embolism. In the other dog, venous embolism resulted from direct herniation of nucleus pulposus into the longitudinal venous sinus. A comparison of the pathogenesis of embolization in each case and a survey of other reported cases suggested that necrotizing myelopathy is a complication of early degeneration of intervertebral disks in large dogs.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0003-1488
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
173
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
289-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1978
pubmed:articleTitle
Acute necrotizing myelopathy from nucleus pulposus embolism in dogs with intervertebral disk degeneration.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports