Epidural myelolipoma in a Husky-cross: a case report

Acta Vet Scand. 2013 Apr 4;55(1):28. doi: 10.1186/1751-0147-55-28.

Abstract

Epidural spinal myelolipoma was diagnosed in an 11.5-year-old castrated male Husky-cross that was evaluated at the veterinary teaching hospital due to progressive thoracolumbar spinal hyperaesthesia and mild proprioceptive pelvic limb ataxia. A focal, ill-defined mildly inhomogenous extradural mass lesion was detected by MRI. The dog was euthanized. At necropsy an extradurally located reddish mass of about 2.5 cm in diameter was present in the vertebral canal. The mass was identified histopathologically as an epidural myelolipoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Dog Diseases / pathology*
  • Dogs
  • Epidural Neoplasms / pathology
  • Epidural Neoplasms / veterinary*
  • Male
  • Myelolipoma / pathology
  • Myelolipoma / veterinary*