The horse is lame and lameness is abolished by palmar digital nerve blocks. You’ve acquired what you think is a good set of radiographs but you are unable to detect any radiological abnormality. You went…
The navicular bone is a sesamoid bone, comprised of compact bone surrounding the trabecular bone or spongiosa. In a normal bone the trabecular bone and the uniformly radiopaque compact bone are clearly demarcated. The thickness…
You’re looking at a horse with a short, choppy stride in front. The lameness is low-grade, inconsistent, maybe bilateral. You nerve block the palmar digital nerves and see some improvement. Radiographs look within normal limits….
You’ve acquired a good-quality dorsoproximal-palmarodistal oblique (DPr-PaDiO) image of the navicular bone. There are six radiolucent zones (synovial invaginations) at the distal border—maybe seven, depending on how you count them. The horse shows mild, bilateral…