Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerve Abnormalities of the Ruminant.
In food animals, spinal cord damage is most commonly associated with infection or trauma. Antemortem diagnosis is based on clinical signs, history, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, and imaging. As clinical signs are often severe, and prognosis is grave, necropsy may provide a postmortem diagnosis. Peripheral nerve abnormalities are most often the result of trauma. Calving paralysis or paresis is the most common condition affecting the sciatic or obturator nerve and often concurrently involves the peroneal branch of the sciatic. Damage to peripheral nerves is often transient and resolves within a few days as long as the nerve is not severed.
Food Animal Surgery, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, 4475 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA. Electronic address: ahartnack@cvm.tamu.edu.
Amanda K
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Hartnack
D000818:Animals; D059348:Peripheral Nerve Injuries / Q000662:veterinary*; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000002:abnormalities; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D012418:Ruminants; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000002:abnormalities; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000662:veterinary*
Paralysis; Parasitic; Paresis; Peripheral nerve injury; Spinal cord injury; Spinal cord trauma