Diagnostic Exercise 1

Case 8

These photographs are from a dog.

Considering the photograph on the left:

• What lesions do you see?
• What do you think they represent?
• What do you think the dog behaved like?
• How were his spinal reflexes? You should be saying "which ones".
• What do you think his pain perception was in the left lateral digit?

This slide represents a clinical syndrome that you might what to check up on.

The right photograph is the vertebral column of a dog, the dorsal lamina and the spinal cord have been removed. We are looking at the floor of the spinal canal. There is a good lesions there.

• What is that lesion?
• How does it correlate with the photograph on the left?