Mariana de Oliveira Bonow, José Renato Junqueira Borges, Isabel Luana de Macêdo, Davi Emanuel Ribeiro de Sousa, João Marcelo Azevedo de Paula Antunes, Márcio Botelho de Castro, Antonio Raphael Teixeira-Neto, Benito Soto-Blanco, Antonio Carlos Lopes Câmara
This paper aims to report clinical, laboratory, radiographic, and pathological features in a case of cervical vertebral stenotic myelopathy (CVSM) affecting a 4-month-old Nelore calf for the first time. During physical examination, the calf could stand if assisted when lifting by the tail but fallen to the ground when trying to walk. Attempts to flex and extend the neck to the right side failed. Radiographs findings consisted of reduced intervertebral spaces, and misalignments between the endplates, more evident between the C3 and C4 vertebrae, resulting in narrowing of the spinal canal and compression of the spinal cord...
December 16, 2022: Veterinary Sciences