5-months-old female Weimaraner with fever, vomiting, cough and joint pain, as well as pain when opening the mouth. A full body CT-scan was performed.
Continue readingMetaphyseal osteopathy (hypertrophic osteodystrophy) in a puppy
Canine elbow neoplasia with pulmonary metastasis
11-years-old male crossbreed was presented with a mass at the right elbow. A CT-scan of the elbows and thorax was performed
Continue readingThoracic spinal mass with extradural extension in a dog
5-year-old male German Shepperd dog with pelvic limbs weakness. A mass at the level of thoracic vertebrae is detected during the general physical examination.
A thoracic spine CT is performed.
Canine erosive joint disease
2-year-old male crossbreed dog, rescued with left forelimb lameness, decreased extension and flexion of the left shoulder and soft tissue swelling.
A shoulder CT-scan was performed.
Multiple cervical and thoracic vertebral fractures in a dog
5-year-old male crossbreed hit by a car with tetraplegia and cervical pain. A cervico-thoracic spine CT was performed.
Continue readingPolyarthritis and lobar emphysema in a young dog
6-months-old male spanish hound. Three weeks ago, he presented with tachypnoea, fever, and apathy; he was diagnosed with bronchopneumonia. A blood culture was performed and Pasteurella canis was isolated. A few days ago, he started with painful joints and thoracolumbar spine.
A CT scan of fore limbs, pelvic limbs, thoracolumbar spine and thorax was performed.
Discospondylitis caused by migrating foreign body
2-year-old female, crossbreed dog. She has been avoiding any kind of activity for 4-5 weeks. Then she started with lameness of the right pelvic limb.
Continue readingSublumbar mass
8-years-old female boxer with pelvic limbs weakness and leishmaniosis. In the radiographic study of the lumbar spine, a soft tissue lesion with mineralizations at the ventral aspect of the vertebral bodies of L7-S1 was seen.
An abdominal CT was performed.
Psoas muscle abscess associated with a foreign body
2-year-old male American Staffordshire Terrier with history of lumbosacral pain.
A lumbosacral MRI was performed.
Polyostotic lesion in the left tarsus in a dog
9-year-old male Doberman, with a mass in the left tarsal area, that affects the bone with osteolysis. For months he has been intermittently lame of the left pelvic limb. The mass has increased in size.
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