THE ACCURACY OF THE DORSOPROXIMAL-DORSODISTAL PROJECTION IN ASSESSING THIRD CARPAL BONE SCLEROSIS IN STANDARDBRED TROTTERS |
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| Authors: | Henrik Uhlhorn DVM Stina Ekman DVM PhD Anne Haglund DVM Johan Carlsten DVM PhD |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Clinical Radiology and Anatomy and Histology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala.;Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala.;Department of Clinical Radiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. |
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| Abstract: | Thirty-five carpal joints from 20 standardbred trotters, age 1 to 7 years, all euthanized for nonorthopedic reasons, were examined to investigate the correlation between assessments of subchondral bone sclerosis in the third carpal bone from radiographs in the dorsoproximal-dorsodistal (DPr-DDi) projection and histomorphometric bone volume density measurements. The agreement between assessments of sclerosis from antemortem versus postmortem radiographs was also evaluated. Bones graded as sclerotic in the DPr-DDi projection had significantly higher bone volume density values for all areas of measurement than nonsclerotic bones. For sclerotic bones, grading of sclerosis was significantly associated with volume density measurements in the central cancellous bone only. There was a good agreement ( k w =0.71) between assessments of radiographic bone sclerosis from antemortem versus postmortem radiographs. |
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| Keywords: | equine carpal bone sclerosis radiography skyline projection histomorphometry |
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