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Term: Myelomalacia

Myelomalacia literally means “soft spinal cord.”

It is used most commonly in veterinary medicine as part of a pathological processed called ascending-descending myelomalacia (a.k.a., hemorrhagic myelomalacia).

COTM: Tetraparetic Yorkie

This month’s case is a Yorkie that had a sudden onset of lameness/weakness in the hind limbs the night before presentation that had progressed to inability to walk on all 4 limbs by the following morning.