Physical Diagnosis PDX
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Advancing medical education and improving patient care worldwide by teaching physical diagnosis through an online library of clinical findings.
Q11. I assume this is clonus (UMN Lesion). Would spinal stenosis in a dog cause an UMN lesion? spinal cord ends at L1 in humans. So would not get clonus. Clonus very common in cervical myelopathy.
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Thank you Michael ! Sorry for the delay in response. Great question/point. PDXPDX cofounder Pete Sullivan, whose dog this was, learned that in dogs, the cords terminates at L6/7. So while in humans your point holds, it turns out in dogs LS stenosis can actually result in clonus at the ankle. Uncomfortably delving into veterinary medicine 🙂