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Cristian de la Fuente1, Sergio Ródenas, Martí Pumarola
1Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animal (de la Fuente, Pumarola), Fundació Hospital Clínic Veterinari (de la Fuente, Añor), Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain; CHUV, Faculté de Médicine Vétérinaire. Université de Montréal, 1525 rue des Vétérinaires, Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec J2S 7C6 (Ródenas).
Abstract:
An 8-year-old cat was presented with severe neurological deficits secondary to a traumatic cervical spinal cord injury caused by an airgun pellet. This report describes, for the first time, the myelographic findings of a dural rupture in a cat and also describes a bilateral Horner's syndrome in a cat.
