Horse tarsus

Question 1

What is the most common site for OCD in the talus of a horse?

Answer 1

DIRT

Question 2

What are the most common sites for simultaneously affected OCD in the talus?

Answer 2

DIRT and lateral talar ridge

Question 3

What makes a talar OCD lesion clinical?

Answer 3

Large bony fragment - most common of the lateral ridge in heavy horses.

Question 4

Smaller talar lesions (flattening or semicircular defects) most often associated with where?

Answer 4

Medial talar ridge

Question 5

Which malleolus is more commonly seen affected by OCD?

Answer 5

Medial

Question 6

What projection is the best for OCD lesions affecting the malleolus?

Answer 6

DLPMO at 15-30 degrees

Question 7

Does OCD of the proximal tubercle of the talus have significance?

Answer 7

Usually no.

Question 8

Avulsion fractures along the tibial malleoli are indicative of what?

Answer 8

Collateral ligament injury

Question 9

What joints of the talus are most commonly affected by the DJD in the tarsus?

Answer 9

distal intertarsal

Tarsometatarsal

Question 10

DJD in the talsus is considered one of the most common causes of lameness in a horse T/F

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Remodeling and smooth bony spurs with no other remodeling of the joint is likely insignificant DJD?

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Osteophyte formation at the distal intertarsal joint margins are more or less significant than in the tarsometatarsal joint?

Answer 12

More significant

Question 13

In what type of newborn foal is incomplete ossification most common?

Answer 13

premature

twins

Question 14

What tarsal bone is most commonly affect with incomplete ossification of the tarsus?

Answer 14

Third tarsal bone

Question 15

Subchondral bone cysts are common in what tarsal bones?

Answer 15

Common and third

Question 16

What is the most predominant signs of DJD in the talocalcaneal or prox intertarsal join?

Answer 16

Subchondral bony lysis

Question 17

What type of salter harris fracture is most commonly associated with fractures of the tibia in foals?

Answer 17

SH II

Question 18

What views are the central tarsal bone fractures seen the best? Third tarsal bone fractures?

Answer 18

Central = lateromedial
third = DMPLO

Question 19

What is a warning sign for a fracture of the third or central tarsal bones?

Answer 19

Marked sclerosis with no DJD

Question 20

What type of fractures are third and central tarsal bones usually?

Answer 20

Slab

Question 21

Third tarsal bone fractures are commonly in what location of the bone?

Answer 21

Dorsal to dorsolateral

Question 22

What joint is the most commonly affect joint when discussing septic arthris?

Answer 22

Tarsocrural

Question 23

Calcanean and sustentaculum tali osteomyelitis is commonly associated with what?

Answer 23

Penetrating injuries and usually has spetic calcaneal bursitis and tarsal synovial sheath infection

Question 24

What lesion can be mistaken as an osteolytic lesion in the proximal end of the tuber calcanei?

Answer 24

Enthesopathy of the tuber calcanei

Question 25

Where does swelling normally occur with tenosynovitis of the tarsal tendon shealth?

Answer 25

medial aspect of the tarsus

between the tibia and the calcaneus

Question 26

What passes over the sustentaculum tali?

Answer 26

Lateral digital flexor tendon

Question 27

What is needed for a complete assessment of the proximal suspensory ligament?

Answer 27

MRI or US