Malik, Yasminda; Konar, Martin; Wernick, Morena; Howard, J.; Forterre, Franck (2009). Chronic intervertebral disk herniation associated with fused vertebrae treated by vertebral lateral corpectomy in a cat. Veterinary and comparative orthopaedics and traumatology, 22(2), pp. 170-173. Stuttgart: Schattauer 10.3415/VCOT-08-06-0047
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A 10-year-old Domestic Shorthair cat was admitted for chronic ambulatory paraparesis and a spinal malformation. The clinical examination revealed paraparesis accentuated on the left side. Thoracolumbar radiographs revealed a spinal malformation with a narrowed intervertebral space between L1 and L2, and a dorsal fusion at the level of L2-L3 with a common dorsal process. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed an intervertebral disk herniation with a ventral compression of the spinal cord at the level of L1/2. A standard vertebral lateral corpectomy with a foraminotomy was performed with a good outcome.