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Cancerous growth from a spinal cord blood vessel tumor in a German
By Courtney P. Korff et al.·Published in Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine·2024·View original on Semantic Scholar →
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Original publication title: Malignant transformation of an intraparenchymal hemangioma in the cervical spinal cord of a German shepherd dog
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Plain-English summary
An 8-year-old female spayed German shepherd was brought in because she had weakness in her right front leg for about a week. An MRI showed a concerning mass in her cervical spinal cord, which led to a rapid decline in her condition within 24 hours. Unfortunately, the decision was made to euthanize her after the MRI results. A post-mortem examination revealed that the mass was a hemangiosarcoma, a type of cancer that developed from a previously benign blood vessel tumor. This case highlights a rare occurrence of this cancer in the spinal cord.
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Abstract
Abstract An 8‐year‐old female spayed German shepherd dog was presented for evaluation of a 1‐week history of right thoracic limb monoparesis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) identified an intraparenchymal, T2 hypointense and T1 isointense, strongly heterogeneously contrast‐enhancing mass with moderate internal susceptibility artifact on T2* images at the level of the cranial extent of the C5 vertebral body. Euthanasia was elected after a rapid neurologic decline in the 24 hours after MRI. Necropsy and histopathology identified an intraparenchymal hemangiosarcoma arising from a hemangioma in the cervical spinal cord, with no evidence of neoplastic disease in any other examined organs. The spectrum of vasoproliferative disorders in the central nervous system in veterinary species has been codified recently, but hemangiosarcoma is considered metastatic to the central nervous system. Herein we describe the clinical, imaging, and histologic findings in a dog with a novel primary location of hemangiosarcoma in the cervical spinal cord.
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Search related cases →Original publication on Semantic Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/39258518