Exercises in Veterinary Radiology Spinal Disease contains clinical descriptions with selected portions of radiographic studies of dogs and cats with spinal disorders.

Exercises in Veterinary Radiology Spinal Disease covers major topics in clinical neurology and neuroradiology relevant to the case studies presented.

Contents

Cases

• "Klaus" Has A Sore Neck
• A Painful, Older Dog
• Disc Disease in a Doberman
• Different Causes for Cauda Equina Syndrome
• More Than One Radiographic study
• Four Dogs with Suspected Spinal Tumors
• Abdominal Studies in the Dog
• "Mollie's" Problems
• Hindquarter/Pelvic Limb Pain
• Why Myelography?
• Two Patients with Thoracic Limb Abnormalities
• Four Male Dogs with Lumbosacral Pain
• Noncontrast Study Negative - Myelographic Study Positive
• A Postsurgical Patient
• What is Dural Ossification?
• Cervical Spondylopathy
• Cervicothoracic Lesions in Four Dogs
• Unusual Features of Myelography
• Soft Tissue Tumors within the Vertebral Canal
• When to Use Compression Technique?
• Which Lesioni Is Important?
• Four Dogs with Spondylosis Deformans
• Spinal Problems in Cats
• Cranial Cervical Mass
• Discospondylitis with Instability
• "Lucy"
• Spondylitis and Discospondylitis
• "Percy"
• Spinal Problems in Puppies
• Spinal Lesions Identified on Abdominal Radiographs of Cats
• Spinal Changes Seen on Thoracic Radiographs in Four Cats
• Myelography in Cats
• A Brachial Plexus Tumor
• Motor Accidents
• Previous Radiographs Can Be Helpful
• What Is Your Diagnosis
• "Felice"
• "HBC"
• Four Traumatized Dogs
• Unique Myelographic Patterns in a Group of Dachshunds
• Four Young Dachshunds with Thoracolumbar Myeloptathies
• A Thoracolumbar (TL) Transverse Myelopathy in "Spooky"
• What to Do with "Moss"?
• Three Dachshunds with Unusual Disc Disease
• A Group of Dogs Involved in Motor Accidents
• Cauda Equina Syndrome
• Disseminated Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH)
• A Routine Thoracic Study With Spinal Changes
• Different Etiologies for Thoracolumbar (TL) Lesions
• Calcified Discs
• Trauma to Four Small Dogs
• Evaluation of Calcified Discs in Four Dogs
• Suspect Cauda Equina Syndrome in Four Large Dogs
• "Hit By a Car"
• "Four Poodles with Cervical Pain"
• "Big Dogs with a Big Pain in the Neck"
• Small Dogs with a Big Pain in the Neck"
• Two Puppies with Soft Tissue Masses in the Neck
• Hind Limb Lameness
• "Joshua"
• "Abby"
• Surgery or Neurology Service?
• Three Dogs with T3-L3 Lesions
• "Spencer"

Textual Material

• Preface - Exercises in Diagnostic Radiology - Spinal Disease
• What This Book Contains and How To Use It
• Summary of the Diagnostic Approach to Animals with Suspected Neruologic Disease
• Summary of the Neurological Examination
• Definition and Types of Myelopathies
• Clinical Signs of Myelopathies
• Factors Determining Clinical Signs
• Upper and Lower Motor Neruons
• Loclaization of Lesions within the Spinal Cord
• Vertebrae Versus Spinal Cord Lesions
• Diagnostic Approach to Spinal Cord Lesions
• Localization Errors
• Prognosis Bases on Clinical Signs
• Cauda Equina Syndrome
• Change in Size or Shape of Vertebral Body
• Spinal Tumors in the Dog
• Dynamic Radiography
• Vertebral Canal Stenosis in the Dog
• Rules for Good Radiography of the Spine
• Changes in Width of Disc Space
• Osseous Metaplasis or Dural Ossification of the Spinal Dura Mater in the Dog
• Cervical Spondylopathy (Cervical Vertebral Malformation - Malarticulation)
• Summary - Cervical Spondylopathy in the Dog
• Myelography with Disc Disease
• Patterns of Myelographic Changes
• Radiographic Changes in Disc Disease
• Spondylitis, Discitis, and Discospondylitis
• Hemivertebra
• Spina Bifida
• Failure of Separation of Vertebrae (Block Vertebra)
• Changes in the Vertebral Arch
• Spinal Neoplasia in the Cat
• Multiple Osteochondromatosis in the Cat
• Feline Spondylosis Deformans
• Diagnostic Approach for Lameness
• Radiography of Spinal Trauma
• Clinical Signs of Spinal Trauma
• Disc Degeneration in the Dog
• Malalignment of Vertebrae
• Spondylosis Deformans in the Dog
• Achondroplasia
• Contraindications for Myelography
• Radiographic Diagnosis of the Lumbosacral Junction
• Disseminated Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH)
• Osteoarthritis
• Classification of Primary Vertebral Canal Stenosis
• Transitional Lumbosacral Vertebral Anomaly in the Dog
• Cervical Pain Due to Spinal Column or Neural Disease
• Congenital Occipito-Atlanto-Axial Lesions in the Dog
• Sacral Osteochondrosis

Index

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