Cystic bone lesions in related Old English Sheepdogs |
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| Authors: | A D J Watson R T Dixon |
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| Institution: | Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies, University of Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia |
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| Abstract: | At 6 months of age, an Old English Sheepdog with swollen and painful distal radial/ulnar metaphyses was found to have multiple cystic lesions in left and right radius and ulna. Cystic bone lesions were also detected radio-graphically in two clinically normal littermates and in the sire and dam of the litter. Radiographic changes of nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism were found in the three affected pups and in two other individuals from the litter of eight.
The cystic lesions in one pup were drained surgically and the cyst wall curetted, while the other two pups were not treated. The lesions in all three pups gradually resolved and had almost completely disappeared by 10 months of age. |
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