Myelopathy in Holstein x Gir calves in Brazil.
This case report contains clinical and pathologic features of a degenerative myelopathy in Holstein X Gir crossbred calves in Brazil. The bilateral and symmetrical spinal cord white matter lesions were interpreted as a primary axonopathy that may be of the dying-back type.
Borges
Alexandre Secorun
AS
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Departamento de Clínica Veterinária, Botucatu, SP, Brazil. asborges@fmvz.unesp.br
Mendes
Luiz Claudio Nogueira
LC
Luvizotto
Maria Cecília Rui
MC
Summers
Brian
B
de Lahunta
Alexander
A
D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001938:Brazil; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D008297:Male; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary*; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary*