Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Neck pain in dog after pharyngeal stick injury and surgery
By Pratt, J N et al.·Published in The Journal of small animal practice·1999·Hospital for Small Animals, United Kingdom·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Osteomyelitis of the atlanto-occipital region as a sequela to a pharyngeal stick injury.
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Plain-English summary
An eight-year-old female Belgian shepherd was brought in for chronic neck pain after injuring her throat while catching a stick three months earlier. X-rays showed signs of infection in her neck joints, and an ultrasound revealed a stick lodged in the soft tissue near her spine. The stick was surgically removed, and within a week after the surgery, her neck pain began to improve significantly.
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Abstract
An eight-year-old female Belgian shepherd dog was referred for investigation of chronic neck pain. The dog had sustained a pharyngeal injury 12 weeks previously while catching a stick. Radiographs of the cervical spine revealed signs consistent with a septic arthritis of the atlanto-occipital joint and osteomyelitis of both occipital condyles and the atlas. A foreign body was identified ultrasonographically in the retropharyngeal soft tissues, and a stick was surgically removed from a site ventral to the right side of the atlanto-occipital joint. The signs of neck pain started to resolve within a week of surgery.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10516953/