Spinal arachnoid diverticula in cats: Clinical presentation, diagnostic imaging findings, treatment, and outcome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Spinal arachnoid diverticulum (SAD) is considered a rare disease in cats. Previous reports mainly classified SAD in cats as acquired.

Hypothesis/objectives

The aim of this study was to describe the signalment, clinical presentation, diagnostic imaging findings, and outcome in a group of cats with SAD.

Animals

Twenty-one client-owned cats.

Methods

Multicenter observational retrospective review of the medical records of cats diagnosed with SAD by magnetic resonance imaging.

Results

Most cats were Domestic Short Hair (67%), male (63%), and had a wide range of ages (18 weeks to 13 years old). Neuroanatomical localization was consistent with a T3-L3 myelopathy in 18 cats (86%) and C1-C5 myelopathy in 3 cats (14%). One cat with a C1-C5 myelopathy de

SUBMITTER: De Frias JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11683399 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature