title: [The differential diagnosis of spinal cord malformations in cattle].
abstract: Hereditary developmental disorders of the CNS, especially spinal cord, are of increasing importance in the bovine species. Therefore, congenital spinal malformations of non-hereditary origin have to be ruled out by carefully directed neuromorphological procedures. The two cases of malformation of the spinal cord reported were not accompanied by vertebral defects: The first one represents a complete diplomyelia of the caudal lumbo-sacral medulla in an 18 months old Brown Swiss heifer, the second one a circumscribed hydromyelia of the fifth lumbal segment, based on an incomplete dysraphic defect, in a 4 months old male German Simmental calf. Problems of diagnostic measures and of terminology, concerning differentiation between diplomyelia and diastematomyelia, were discussed in detail.
authors.affiliation: Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Pathologie und Neuropathologie, Tierärztlichen Fakultät der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dahme
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kaiser
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hafner
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle / Q000002:abnormalities*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000002:abnormalities*
vernacular_title: Zur Differentialdiagnose von Rückenmarksmissbildungen beim Rind.