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3. Normal tail and anal tone and reflexes, and normal or exaggerated pelvic
limb reflexes with normal tone or hypertonia.
4. Hypalgesia or analgesia just caudal to the lesion.
5. +/- Urinary incontinence.
C. Cervical intumescence: (C6-T2)
1. Paresis (tetraparesis) and ataxia of all four limbs to tetraplegia. Signs
often appear worse in forelimbs
2. Depressed or absent thoracic limb reflexes and tone with atrophy.
3. Normal or exaggerated pelvic limb reflexes and tone.
4. Hypalgesia or analgesia caudal to the cranial edge of the lesion.
Hypalgesia may be more pronounced in the thoracic limbs.
D. Cervical spinal cord cranial to the intumescence: (C1-C5)
1. Ataxia and paresis (tetraparesis) of all four limbs to tetraplegia, unless
extremely mild, in which case rear limbs might be scored 1+ and thoracic
limbs appear normal. Ataxia and paresis may be more obvious in the
pelvic limbs (usually one grade w