A rare case of spinal rudimentary meningocoele mimicking a spinal dermoid cyst in a cat
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This report describes a rare case of a rudimentary meningocoele in a 1‐year‐old Scottish Fold cat. The presentation included multiple congenital abnormalities of the thoracolumbar vertebrae and sacrum, as well as a spastic contracture of the right pelvic limb. Advanced imaging, including plain computed tomography and fistulography, confirmed the diagnosis and aided in planning an L6 to S2 dorsal laminectomy for lesion excision. Surgery was performed to prevent complications such as infection and the progression of neurological deficits. Exploration of the lesion revealed a bifid cauda equina. The immediate postoperative outcome was satisfactory. The owner reported an excellent outcome at the 6‐month follow‐up. This rare case highlights that proliferation of meningothelial elements can be present in the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues, that spinal dysraphism anomalies are often multiple rather than isolated, and that there is significant variability in their presentation. It also provides detailed insights into their diagnosis and surgical management.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".