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1 October 1988 Meningioma in a Woodchuck Exhibiting Central Vestibular Deficits
Michael Podell, Mark Pokras, Peter Gerlach, Richard Jakowski
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Abstract

An 11-yr-old captive-raised male woodchuck (Marmota monax) presented with ataxia, poor balance, left-sided weakness, circling to the left and nystagmus with the fast-phase directed towards the left. The clinical signs were compatible with a central vestibular deficit syndrome. Necropsy and histologic findings revealed a meningotheliomatous meningioma centered over the ventrolateral left pons and medulla along with acute bronchopneumonia, chronic glomerulopathy, interstitial nephritis, and phthisis bulbi.

Podell, Pokras, Gerlach, and Jakowski: Meningioma in a Woodchuck Exhibiting Central Vestibular Deficits
Michael Podell, Mark Pokras, Peter Gerlach, and Richard Jakowski "Meningioma in a Woodchuck Exhibiting Central Vestibular Deficits," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 24(4), 695-699, (1 October 1988). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-24.4.695
Received: 4 November 1987; Published: 1 October 1988
KEYWORDS
bronchopneumonia
case history
central vestibular deficits
glomerulopathy
Marmota monax
meningioma
Woodchuck
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