Clinical Radiology of the Horse is the best-selling, practical guide to all areas of equine radiography and radiology written by an experienced group of clinicians with a broad range of backgrounds. Offers an atlas of normal and clinical images, as well as a comprehensive guide to techniques, equipment, positioning, and interpretation for general veterinary practitioners and specialists in imaging and orthopaedics Updates to this fourth edition fully reflect the move to digital imaging with many new figures in the book and major revisions to the chapters on the head, thorax, and abdomen Contains expanded coverage of the foot, pastern, and fetlock (now in separate chapters) Includes a password-protected website with all the images from the book as well as over 200 additional images with examples of more subtle lesions, more fractures, correct technique and positioning versus incorrect, immature horses, progression of disease, and pathological images

Clinical Radiology of the Horse is the best-selling, practical guide to all areas of equine radiography and radiology written by an experienced group of clinicians with a broad range of backgrounds.* Offers an atlas of normal and clinical images, as well as a comprehensive guide to techniques, equipment, positioning, and interpretation for general veterinary practitioners and specialists in imaging and orthopaedics* Updates to this fourth edition fully reflect the move to digital imaging with many new figures in the book and major revisions to the chapters on the head, thorax, and abdomen* Contains expanded coverage of the foot, pastern, and fetlock (now in separate chapters)* Includes a password-protected website with all the images from the book as well as over 200 additional images with examples of more subtle lesions, more fractures, correct technique and positioning versus incorrect, immature horses, progression of disease, and pathological images

About the authors vPreface to the fourth edition viiAbout the companion website ix1 General principles 1Introduction, 1Principles of radiography, 3Principles of radiographic interpretation: radiology 15Radiological appearance of physiological changes and some common pathological lesions, 202 Computed and digita l radiography 413 The foot_55Distal phalanx (pedal bone), 55Hoof, 97Navicular bone, 1134 The proximal and middle phalanges and the proximal interphalangeal joint_1495 Metacarpopha langeal and metatarsopha langeal (fet lock) joints_1756 The metacarpal and metatarsal regions_2157 The carpus and antebrach ium_2598 The shoulder, humerus , elbow and radius_301Scapulohumeral (shoulder) joint and humerus, 301Humeroradial,humeroulnar and radioulnar (elbow or cubital) joints and radius, 3309 The tarsus_34910 The stifle and tibia_399Stifle, 399Tibia, 44011 The head 449Cranium, 451Paranasal sinuses (frontal, maxillary, conchal) and maxilla, 466Teeth and mandible, 480; Pharynx, larynx and Eustachian tube diverticulum, 51212 The vertebra l column 531Cervical vertebrae, 531Thoracolumbar vertebrae, 569Sacrum and coccygeal vertebrae, 60213 The pelvis and femur_609Pelvis, 609Femur, 63214 The thorax 63915 The alimentar y and urinary systems_687Oesophagus, 694; Abdomen and gastrointestinal tract, 705Urinary system, 71516 Miscellaneous techniques_723Arthrography and bursography, 723Tendonography, 724Angiography, 725;Venography, 730Myelography, 733Pneumocystography, 743Intravenous Pyelography, 744Other techniques, 744Appendix A: Fusion times of physes and suture lines_749Appendix B: Exposure guide, image quality and film processing faults_753Appendix C: Glossary 761Index 767