Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Cat with hindlimb weakness from spinal histiocytic sarcoma tumor
By Smoliga, J et al.·Published in The Journal of small animal practice·2005·Department of Biomedical Sciences, United States·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Myelopathy caused by a histiocytic sarcoma in a cat.
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Plain-English summary
An 8-year-old female domestic shorthair cat was brought in because she had been having trouble walking and seemed uncoordinated in her hind legs for three weeks. After running tests, the vet found a mass in her chest that was pressing on her spinal cord. Unfortunately, this mass was identified as a rare type of cancer called histiocytic sarcoma. Sadly, despite the diagnosis, the cat did not survive.
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Abstract
An eight-year-old, female spayed, domestic shorthair cat presented with a three-week history of progressive general proprioceptive ataxia and upper motor neuron paresis of the hindlimbs. Computed tomography revealed a mediastinal mass invading the vertebral canal with the T1 spinal nerve and roots, causing extramedullary compression of the cranial thoracic spinal cord. Histopathological and immunohistochemical studies of the mass during postmortem examination disclosed a neoplasm, later determined to be a poorly differentiated histiocytic sarcoma. Feline histiocytic tumours are rare, with only two prior reports existing in the veterinary literature. This report details a case work-up and reviews the literature on feline histiocytic diseases and tumours affecting the feline spinal
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15682739/