[Metastatic malignant melanoma with spinal cord compression and resulting recumbency ante partum in a mare. A case
L Hildebrandt1, K Jäger, A Snyder
1Ambulatorische und Geburtshilfliche Tierklinik, Veterinärmedizinische Fakultät der Universität Leipzig, An den Tierkliniken 29, 04103 Leipzig. hildebrandt@vetmed.uni-leipzig.de
Tierarztliche Praxis. Ausgabe G, Grosstiere/Nutztiere
|June 15, 2013
Abstract:
The case report describes a narrowing of the spinal canal in the lumbar and sacroiliac regions with entailing acute recumbency in a nearterm 17-year-old Welsh B Pony mare. The reason for recumbency was metastases of a malignant melanoma in the spinal canal of the lumbo-sacral region, where the tumour had invaded the dura mater and applied severe pression on the spinal cord over a length of 10 cm. Clinical findings, laboratory diagnostics, pathological-anatomical and histopathological findings are presented.
