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Introduction to Large Animal Musculoskeletal Imaging

Introduction to Large Animal Musculoskeletal Imaging. Dr. LeeAnn Pack. Technical Considerations. Usually mobile units used Min-X Bowie Thorax, shoulders etc – need bigger machine FFD is shorter usually 30 inches Should check with the measuring tape Collimation. Safety. Barns

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Introduction to Large Animal Musculoskeletal Imaging

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  1. Introduction to Large AnimalMusculoskeletal Imaging Dr. LeeAnn Pack

  2. Technical Considerations • Usually mobile units used • Min-X • Bowie • Thorax, shoulders etc – need bigger machine • FFD is shorter usually 30 inches • Should check with the measuring tape • Collimation

  3. Safety • Barns • People need to be out of barn • Pregnant? • Radiation Protection • Lead aprons, gloves • Take care of them in the truck – no folding • Cassette holder, wooden blocks • Sedation

  4. The Radiographs • Correct Naming of views • Correct Labeling of films • View (R, L, DMPLO etc) • Label correct (patient name etc) • Correct Viewing of films and naming of structures seen • Legality

  5. Nutrient Foramen

  6. Common Developmental Conditions • OCD • Cartilage fails to ossify • Free fragment or flap • Radiographic findings: • Flattening of the articular surface • Mineralized fragment or flap • Subchondral lucency/sclerosis • Secondary DJD • Often bilateral

  7. OCD - DIRT

  8. Tarsal OCD

  9. Common Developmental Conditions • OCD – Subchondral Bone Cyst • Articular cartilage is stopped but then returns – area of cartilage gets trapped and will be seen as a lucency in the subchondral bone • Secondary DJD can develop • Often bilateral

  10. Angular Limb Deformity • Medial or lateral deviation of the limb • Valgus = lateral • Varus = medial • May be d/t • abnormal cuboidal bones • Uneven physeal growth • Ligamentous laxity

  11. ALD • Usually can tell just looking at the foal • Shoot DP rads including joint above and joint below • Then can draw lines to tell exactly where the deviation originates • Windswept • Repair

  12. ALD – Carpal Valgus

  13. ALD

  14. Fractures • 3rd carpal bone • Radial carpal bone • Kissing lesions • P3 fractures • Apical sesamoid fractures • Splint bone fractures

  15. 3rd Carpal Bone Slab Fx

  16. P1 Articular Fracture

  17. Do you see the Fx?

  18. C 3 Fx

  19. Apical Sesamoid Fractures

  20. P3 Fxs

  21. Degenerative Joint Disease • Most common joint disease in horses • Primary - idiopathic • Secondary – most common • Repetitive motion/movements • Running to the left • Common in Tarsus, Carpus, “Fetlocks” and IP joints

  22. DJD • Radiographic findings: • Thickening of joint capsule • Narrowed joint space • New bone production on articular margins (osteophytes) • Subchondral bone sclerosis • Ankylosis of joints

  23. Degenerative Joint Disease • Tarsus - Spavin • Carpus • Stifle • “Fetlocks” • Distal – IP joints • Ring bone • High – DJD of proximal IPJ • Low – DJD of distal IPJ

  24. High Ring Bone

  25. Side Bones

  26. DJD

  27. Carpal DJD

  28. Navicular Disease • Chronic progressive disease that affects the distal sesamoid bone • Usually bilateral • Fore limb more than hind limb • Quarter horses with some TB’s • Navicular disease should not be used as a radiographic diagnosis

  29. Navicular Disease • Radiographic findings • Synovial invaginations enlarged and too numerous • Medullary sclerosis • Lollipops

  30. No Packing

  31. Navicular Disease

  32. Physitis • Related to nutrition? • Young rapidly growing foals • Distal radius, distal tibia, distal 3rd metacarpal and metatarsal bones • Multiple physes usually involved • Radiographic signs • Metaphyseal flaring with sclerosis next to physis • Cortical thickness asymmetry – widened irregular physis

  33. Osteomyelitis • Foals • Hematogenous spread • Umbilicus, lungs, liver – bacterial showering • Adults • Sequestrum can occur • Usually due to trauma • Radiographic findings • Multiple bones? Single bone? Lysis near physis – septic joint

  34. Septic Arthritis/Osteomyelitis

  35. Sequestrum

  36. Laminitis • Inflammation of the laminae of the foot • Cause? • Front feet usually – often bilateral • Saw horse stance • Lack of parallelism between the dorsal aspect of the hoof wall and dorsal aspect of P3 – ST of P3 thick • 18mm • How to ID on rads – rotation, sinking

  37. No LaminitisNote mineral in DDFT

  38. Laminitis

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