title: [Skeletal findings in an adult dog recovering from osteodystrophia fibrosa].
abstract: In a 9-year-old male German Shepherd dog with a body weight of 37 kg which was euthanised because of a spinal meningioma, examination of the carcass revealed severe signs of degradation concerning the whole skeleton which were investigated by radiological, microradiological and pathologic-histological means. The skeletal alterations in form of systemic defects in corticalis and spongiosa in fact correspond to appearance and localisation of bone defects typical of fibrous osteodystrophia, but now are filled by conspicuous cell-poor matured collagenous connective tissue. In this connection it must be emphasised, that there are no osteoclasts detectable in the lacunae of degradation so that the disease process apparently has stopped.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D004285:Dogs; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000662:veterinary; D008579:Meningioma / Q000662:veterinary; D010002:Osteitis Fibrosa Cystica / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D011859:Radiography
vernacular_title: Skelettbefunde bei abgeheilter Osteodystrophia fibrosa eines adulten Hundes.