A 6 month old female siamese cat presented since birth spastic paraplegy associated to urinary and fecal incontinence. The neurological examination showed paralysis, analgesia, increased reflexes and damage of the postural reaction in pelvic limbs. Simple and contrasted (myelography) radiography of the thoracolumbar vertebral column showed a lumbar vertebral canal stenosis and narrowing of the spinal cord on thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. On necropsy and histopathology examination it was observed a segmental hypoplasia characterized for narrowing of the spinal cord in T4-T6 and L2-L3, neuronal depletion in gray substance, and nervous filaments connecting the cranial and caudal parts that was covered for entire and dense dura mater. This alteration characteristic a multiple segmental myelodysplasia.
myelodysplasia; spinal cord disease; cats
