Cauda equina syndrome in a Fleckvieh bull after a pathological fracture of the first sacral vertebra caused by a spindle cell sarcoma
Kofler, J.; Ebner, J.
Tierarztliche Praxis 21(2): 105-109
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0303-6286 PMID: 8488497 Document Number: 414534
A 9 month old Simmental fattening bull was presented with signs of a cauda equina syndrome. An epidurographic examination was made after thorough clinical, neurological and routine radiographic examination. The cause of the cauda equina compression--a spindle cell sarcoma--was revealed by the pathologic-histologic examination. This tumor caused the compression of the cauda equina and pathologic transverse fracture of the body of the first sacral vertebra and cranial epiphyseal fracture of the 1st and the 3rd sacral vertebra as well as the separation of the arcus from the first and second sacral vertebral bodies. Some other diseases which can cause cauda equina syndrome are mentioned.