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Dog 1: Nine-month-old, intact male, Shih-Tzu dog. (A, B): Frames extracted from a movie of the neurological examination showing: (A): flaccid tetraparesis with neck ventroflexion and (B): nasal analgesia. (C): Midsagittal thick-slab multiplanar reformatted CT image of the head and cervical spine showing the absence of bone lesions on the calvarium and cervical vertebrae. (D): Midsagittal T2-weighted MRI image of the head and cervical spine showing no structural or signal abnormalities of the brain or spinal cord. (E): Thirty-six hours after traumatic event the dog fully recovered from his neurological condition.
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Menace reaction was bilaterally absent and there was bilateral nasal analgesia along with a loss of nociception in all limbs (Fig. 1-A, B). On CT images, no bone lesions were found in the skull or cervical vertebrae (Fig 1-C). No structural lesions or signal changes were seen in the brain or spinal cord in MRI images (Fig 1-D). Thirty-six hours after the trauma the dog completely recovered from his neurological condition and was discharged (Fig 1-E).
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Dog 2: Ten-month-old, intact male, poodle dog. (A, B, C): Frames extracted from a movie of the neurological examination showing: (A, B): cerebellar ataxia and (C): twenty-four hours after the traumatic event the patient was able to walk. (D): Midsagittal T2-weighted MRI image of the head showing no structural or signal abnormalities of the brain. (E): Midsagittal multiplanar reformatted CT image of the head showing the absence of bone lesions on the calvarium.
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CT were carried out, with the same technical parameters as described for dog 1, to rule out any possible underlying traumatic cerebellar lesion. CT and MRI images were carefully evaluated consensually by both authors and no structural abnormalities were detected using either technique (Fig 2).