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| Imaging techniques provide important pathologic and physiologic information necessary to treat specific conditions. Imaging can be divided into anatomic and physiologic methods. Anatomic imaging methods include radiology, ultrasonography, computed tomography, and MRI. Physiologic imaging methods include scintigraphy and thermography. When diagnostic analgesia has failed to eliminate the lameness, the lameness is too subtle for localization by diagnostic analgesia, or the horse is not amenable to handling or injection, physiologic imaging techniques may help narrow the problem to a specific region. Anatomic imaging methods can then be used to evaluate those areas. Imaging may also help prevent injury. This requires early detection of the physiologic changes associated with injury. Although frequent use of an anatomic imaging method can detect change in one region, physiologic imaging allows assessment of the entire horse on a routine basis. |
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| See Also |
| Introduction |
| The Lameness Examination |
| Overview |
| Imaging Techniques |
| Anatomic Imaging Techniques |
| Physiologic Imaging Techniques |
| Arthroscopy |
| Regional Analgesia |
| Disorders of the Foot |
| Bone Cyst in Pedal Bone |
| Bruised Sole and Corns |
| Canker |
| Contracted Heels |
| Fracture of Navicular Bone |
| Fracture of Pedal Bone |
| Keratoma |
| Laminitis |
| Navicular Disease |
| Pedal Osteitis |
| Puncture Wounds of the Foot |
| Pyramidal Disease |
| Quittor |
| Sandcrack |
| Scratches |
| Seedy Toe |
| Sheared Heels |
| Sidebone |
| Thrush |
| Disorders of the Fetlock and Pastern |
| Fracture of Phalanges and Proximal Sesamoids |
| Osselets |
| Ringbone |
| Sesamoiditis |
| Villonodular Synovitis |
| Windgalls |
| Disorders of the Carpus and Metacarpus |
| Overview |
| Bucked Shins |
| Degenerative Subchondral Lesions of the Carpal Bones |
| Desmitis or Sprain of the Inferior Check Ligament |
| Fracture of the Carpal Bones |
| Intra-articular Osteochondral Chip Fragments of the Carpus |
| Carpal Slab Fractures |
| Accessory Carpal Bone Fractures |
| Fractures of the Small Metacarpal and Metatarsal (Splint) Bones |
| Fracture of the Third Metacarpal (Cannon) Bone |
| Hygroma |
| Osteoarthritis (Degenerative Joint Disease) |
| Osteochondrosis |
| Osteochondroma of the Distal Radius (Supracarpal Exostosis) |
| Rupture of the Common Digital Extensor Tendon |
| Splints |
| Subchondral Cysts and Septic Arthritis |
| Suspensory Desmitis |
| Synovial Hernia and Ganglion and Synovial Fistulae |
| Tearing of the Medial Palmar Intercarpal Ligament |
| Tenosynovitis of the Tendon Sheaths Associated with the Carpus |
| Traumatic Synovitis and Capsulitis |
| Disorders of the Shoulder and Elbow |
| Arthritis of the Shoulder Joint |
| Bicipital Bursitis |
| Fractures of the Elbow |
| Fractures of the Shoulder |
| Sweeney |
| Disorders of the Tarsus |
| Overview |
| Bog Spavin |
| Bone Spavin |
| Curb |
| Displacement of Superficial Flexor Tendon from the Point of the Hock |
| Fracture of the TArsus |
| Hindlimb Tendon Ruptures |
| Rupture of the Peroneus Tertius Muscle |
| Stringhalt |
| Thoroughpin |
| Disorders of the Stifle |
| Fracture of the Stifle |
| Gonitis |
| Patellar Luxation |
| Subchondral Bone Cyst |
| Disorders of the Hip |
| Coxitis |
| Dislocation of the Hip |
| Pelvic Fracture |
| Trochanteric Bursitis |
| Disorders of the Back |
| Fractures |
| Muscle and Ligament Strain |
| Ossifying Spondylosis |
| Overriding of the Dorsal Spinous Processes |
| Sacroiliac Injury |
| Developmental Orthopedic Disease |
| Overview |
| Osteochondrosis |
| Physitis |
| Flexion Deformities |
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