Imaging

Authors: Natalie J Worden, Bill Oxley, Jaron Naiman, William Michael Karlin, Tiffany M Chen, Scott J Hetzel, Jason Bleedorn

Objective: The main aim of this study is to compare the impact of six proximal tibial osteotomies on the geometry and alignment of tibias with and without excessive tibial plateau angle (TPA).

Category: Imaging - Stifle
Authors: Koen M. Santifort

A 7-month-old, female Rough Collie with a history of diagnosis and treatment for steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis was presented with a history of recurrent fever and lethargy and progressive lameness.

Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a large fluid intensity lesion (T2W hyperintense to muscle, T1W hypointense and in both sequences isointense to joint fluid) centred on the medial aspect of the right shoulder joint with outpouching into the surrounding muscle.

Category: Arthritis - Imaging - Shoulder
Authors: Parisa Mazdarani, James Edward Miles

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the ideal anchor point for patellar anti-rotational sutures for adjunctive stabilization of medial patellar luxation in both small and large breed dogs.

Authors: Sonia González-Rellán, Patricia Fdz-de-Trocóniz, Andrés Barreiro

The palmar region of the canine carpus may be injured by traumatic, inflammatory, infectious, neoplastic, and degenerative disorders. The normal ultrasonographic anatomic features of the dorsal region of the canine carpus have been published, however information regarding the palmar region is currently lacking.

The aims of this prospective, descriptive, anatomic study were (1) to describe the normal ultrasonographic characteristics of the palmar carpal structures in medium to large-breed dogs, and (2) to establish a standardized ultrasonographic protocol for evaluating them.

Category: Carpus - Imaging
Authors: Ayman A Mostafa, Clifford R Berry, Menna A Nahla

Objective: To develop quantitative measures that, when combined with the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) score, would potentially enhance the accuracy of the scoring process.

Animals: 153 client-owned purebred German Shepherd Dogs with normal and near normal (71 dogs) and dysplastic coxofemoral joint (82 dogs).

Category: Hip - Imaging
Authors: Louis M J Vandekerckhove, Stijn Herregodts, Jimmy H Saunders, Bart J G Broeckx

Hip dysplasia is a common orthopaedic condition in dogs and stress radiography is the best diagnostic tool for early diagnosis.

Category: Hip - Imaging
Authors: Maxime Jacqmin, Véronique Livet, Juliette Sonet, Mathieu Harel, Eric Viguier, Pierre Henri Moissonnier, Thibaut Cachon

Objective: The objective of this prospective study was to evaluate the use of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of medial coronoid process disease in unclear cases.

Category: Elbow - Imaging
Authors: Parisa Mazdarani, James Edward Miles

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the ideal anchor point for patellar anti-rotational sutures for adjunctive stabilization of medial patellar luxation in both small and large breed dogs.

Authors: Ashley S Villatoro, Anke Langenbach, Jin Yoon, Tanya C Garcia, Denis J Marcellin-Little

This retrospective observational study aimed to characterize the severity and distribution of OA in the stifle joints of small and medium dogs with CCL injury and/or MPL.

Radiographs of the stifle joints from 218 dogs from 10 small and medium breeds were included; 127 joints had CCL injury, 76 joints had MPL, and 73 joints had CCL injury and MPL. OA was graded at 33 sites within the joint.

Authors: Mareike-Kristin Nickel, Lisa Schikowski, Carsten Staszyk, Sebastian Schaub

Authors have commonly observed lamellar periosteal new bone formation at the cranial aspect of the humeral diaphysis in mediolateral radiographs of the humerus for large breed dogs with no evidence of pain or lameness.

Category: Humerus - Imaging