title: Midline myelotomy of the clinically normal canine spinal cord.
abstract: Clinically normal dogs underwent dorsal laminectomy, durotomy, and full-thickness midline myelotomy between either the 1st and 2nd lumbar vertebrae or the 3rd and 4th lumbar vertebrae. The myelotomy was 1 1/2 vertebral bodies long and was performed with a microbalance spatula. Neurologic and histopathologic changes were recorded. Full-thickness midline myelotomy done by this technique was found to cause severe necrosis of spinal gray matter.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001259:Ataxia / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D004285:Dogs / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D009336:Necrosis; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000662:veterinary; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*