title: [Metastatic malignant melanoma with spinal cord compression and resulting recumbency ante partum in a mare. A case report].
abstract: The case report describes a narrowing of the spinal canal in the lumbar and sacroiliac regions with entailing acute recumbency in a nearterm 17-year-old Welsh B Pony mare. The reason for recumbency was metastases of a malignant melanoma in the spinal canal of the lumbo-sacral region, where the tumour had invaded the dura mater and applied severe pression on the spinal cord over a length of 10 cm. Clinical findings, laboratory diagnostics, pathological-anatomical and histopathological findings are presented.
authors.affiliation: Ambulatorische und Geburtshilfliche Tierklinik, Veterinärmedizinische Fakultät der Universität Leipzig, An den Tierkliniken 29, 04103 Leipzig. hildebrandt@vetmed.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hildebrandt
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jäger
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Snyder
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sobiraj
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006736:Horses; D008545:Melanoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D011187:Posture; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D011859:Radiography; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*