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Caudal occipital malformation syndrome in 10 dogs  

Choi, Ji-hye (Haemaru Referral Animal Hospital)
Kim, Hye-jin (Haemaru Referral Animal Hospital)
Kim, Hyun-wook (Haemaru Referral Animal Hospital)
Lee, Eun-chang (Haemaru Referral Animal Hospital)
Jang, Jae-young (Haemaru Referral Animal Hospital)
Ban, Hyun-jung (Haemaru Referral Animal Hospital)
Kim, Jin-kyung (Haemaru Referral Animal Hospital)
Yoon, Junghee (Collage of Veterinary Medicine and BK21 Program for Veterinary Science, Seoul National University)
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Korean Journal of Veterinary Research / v.46, no.4, 2006 , pp. 399-403 More about this Journal
Abstract
Caudal occipital malformation syndrome (COMS) is relatively common disease which occurs at craniocervical junction. It has been known that this syndrome was developed mainly in Cavalier King Charles spaniels, but these days there are a lot of case reports about COMS in other small breed dogs. In this report, COMS was diagnosed in ten dogs presented to Haemaru Referral Animal Hospital using MRI examination from January 2005 to April 2006. These cases were also investigated about concurrent diseases and syringomyelia was the most common type of complication, but clinical signs were nonspecific. COMS could be controlled by medical therapy with corticosteroid except cases with concurrent meningitis. It is considered that the present report could provide information regarding imaging and clinical features of COMS such as concurrent diseases, clinical signs, and prognosis in small animal practice despite of limited case numbers.
Keywords
caudal occipital malformation syndrome; hydrocephalus; MRI; small breed dogs; syringomyelia;
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