Radiology Flashcards
What can you see in this rad?
Megaoesophgus - generalised enlargement and poor motility
What are the Roentgen signs?
- Size
- Shape
- Margin
- Opacity
- Number
- Location
What Lung pattern is this?
Alveolar Pattern
Species differences. Which is dog which is cat and why?
Dog is on the left. Dogs pelvis has more twist in it.
What lung pattern is this?
Alveolar Pattern
If you have an animal with dependency atelectasis how do you fix it?
- Put the animal in sternal recumbency
- Ventilate for 5-10mins
What are the categories of Bone Production?
- Solid
- Smooth Solid homogenous and multilayered
- Irregular Solid (imhomogenous)
- Interupted
- Palisading, Spiculated to sunburst patterns
- Amorphous pattern
What do we use a myelograph for?
- Lesion localisation within the spinal canal,
- Extradural
- Intradural - extramedullary
- Intramedullary
If we had a Complicated Effusion (mass effect with displacement of lung lobes whaty could be some of the reasons for this
- Unilateral Effusion
- DDX
- pyothorax
- Haemothorax
- Chylothorax
- DDX
- Mass (focal displacement)
- Diaphragmatic rupture/hernia
What are some DDx for alignment changes in the joints
- Trauma to soft tissue supports
- CCL
- Medial and Lateral collateral ligaments
- Traumatic Hip Luxation
- Congenitial Development Disease
- Hip Dysplasia
- Elbow Luxation
- Short Ulna Syndrome
What is the most common type of bone healing?
- Secondary (Indirect) bone healing
- Some motion is present
- Fracture gab bridged by tussie that tolerates motion
- Granulation –> Fibrous –> Bone
- Fracture gab bridged by tussie that tolerates motion
- Some motion is present
Alterations in Radiopacity of Bone, Either Local or generalised.
What could cause Increased Radiopacity?
- Increased mineralisation
- Stress response thicker cortices
- Growth arrest lines
- Sclerosis / Loss radiolucent spaces trabecular bone
- increased tissue density of the bone (stress)
- Response to disease (Walling off)
- Bone Death
- Folding / Compression fractures of overriding fracture ends
What is the difference between subluxation and luxation
- Subluxation, partial contact with original
- Luxation No contact
Name the parts of a long bone
When would you commonly use an Arthrogram? To diagnose what?
- Evaluation of oesteochondritis dessicans (OCD) in shoulder
- Evaluating bicipital tenosynovitis
If we have a mediastinal Mass what could it be?
Mediastinal Mass
- Fluids
- Blood
- Mediastinitis
- Mass
- Lymph nodes = inflammatory or neoplasia
- Granuloma or abscess
- Thymoma,
- Lymphosarcoma
- Thymic cysts
- heart base mass
What are the Roentgen Signs?
- Is it Visible
- Number
- Size
- Shape (
- Normal for structure
- Rounded, Oval, Angular
- Asymmetric, symmetric
- Protusions (nodular), depressions (indentations)
- Margin (irregular, smooth, poorly defined, sharp)
- Opacity (increased, decreased, normal, or fat, gas, soft tissue, bone or metal)
- Location (Displaced or normal and where displaced from or to)
What/where is the Alconeal process?
When does it heal?
Its an apophysis located on the ulna, it heals at around the 5-6 months of age
What is the second responce to bone injury?
How long is the lag phase?
- Bone Production
- Lag Phase =7-10 days
When looking at a radiograph of the thorax that was taken DV rather then VD what differences would we see?
The heart will look more round in a DV and will be pushed further to the left.
What are some DDx’s for a Synovial Mass?
- Acute Diseases
- Joint effusion - joint trauma, osteoarthritis
- Early Septic arthritis
- Early Immune mediated diseases or non-erosive immune mediated diseases
- Haemarthrosis
- Chronic Disease
- DJD (OA) thickening synovial tissue and joint capsule
- Joint effusion
You have irregular Solid New Bone what coule be som DDx’s?
- Osteomyelitis
- Hypertrophic Osteodystrophy (HOD)
- Metaphyseal
- Radius/tibia
- Hypertrophic Osteopathy (HO)
- Diaphyseal of metacarpals/metatarsal
- Unstable Fracture repair
- Complicated fracture repair
When taking radiographs of the appendicular areas how many view MUST you take?
What is the exception to the rule?
- Appendiculr Radiography - ALWAYS take 2 orthogonal views
- The only MSK exceptions are shoulders when looking for osteochondrosis
Why does bone remodel?
In responce to either Load or Disease
What are the patterns of lung disease?
- Vascular Patterns
- Bronchial Patterns
- Alveolar Patterns
- Interstitial Patterns
- Unstructured
- Nodular (Structured Interstitial)
- Miliary nodular
- Nodular
- Nodular Interstitial
- Ring Shadow and Cavitating Lesions
When Classifying Fractures how do you do this?
- Bone and Location
- Cortical Involvement
- Type
- Number of Fracture Lines
- Open or Closed
- Displacement
- Bone and Location
- Epiphyseal, Physeal, Metaphyseal, Diaphyseal, Articular
- Cortical Involvement
- Complete or Incomplete
- Type
- Transverse
- Oblique
- Spiral
- Number of Fracture Lines
- Simple or comminuted
- Open or Closed
- Gas or no Gas
- Displacement
- Distal/caudal segment relarive to proximal/cranial segment
Geographic Lysis
What are the Radiographic Diagnosis of Geographic Lysis?
What would the DDx be?
- Rad Dx : benign or Non aggressive lytic lesion
- DDx :
- Bone Cyst
- Abscess
- Bacterial Osteomyelitis
We have focal radiolucency of the cortical bone, either destruction or thinning.
There are 3 patterns of lysis, list them from least aggressive to most aggressive.
- Geographic Lysis (Least Aggressive)
- Moth Eaten Lysis (Agressive)
- Permeative Lysis (Most Aggressive)
When taking an appendicular radiograph what are the rules for
- Joints
- Long Bones
Must take orthoganal views at a minimum
Joints need 1/3 of the adjectent bone
- Long bones need joints above and below.
You have Subchondral bone Loss
Focally
Diffusely
What are the DDx
- Focal
- flattened SCB or concave defects specific locations = OCD
- Diffuse
- Septic arthritis or erosive arthritis Immune mediated
Where is Periosteal Bone?
What does this PB form part of (Bone Structure)?
What are the other part to this bone.
What is the other Macroscopic Structure of Bone Called?
- On the outside surface of the Cortical Bone
- Cortical Bone
- Endosteal
- Cancellous (Spongy or trabecular)
- Largest surface area, remodels 40% faster than cortical bone)
When hanging Axial skeleton, Thorax and Abdomen how do I hang:
- Lateral projections
- VD and DV?
- Lateral Projections
- Dorsal is up
- Crainal to viewsers left
- VD and DV
- Cranial is up
- Patients right to viewers left
- Same whether the film is a VD or DV
Alterations in Radiopacity of Bone, Either Local or generalised.
What would a Decreased Radiopacity or Increased Radiolucency indicate?
- Osteolysis/Lysis
- Bone destruction - Neoplasia or Infection
- Decreased Mineralisation (Osteopenia)
- Osteomalacia
- Resorption or disuse
- Osteoporosis (decreased mineral and osteoid)
- Defect in bone formation - from cartliage matrix
- Absence of bone - fracture, destruction.
What is this lung Pattern?
Nodular Pattern
You have bone production which is laminar, lamellar, multilayered or onion skin,
What would some DDx’s be?
- DDx
- Repetitive trauma
- Chronic episodic osteomylitis
- Slow growing neoplasia
- Fracture Healing
What is this arrow showing?
What are the predilection sites for this?
Osteochondrosis
- often involves weight bearing articular surfaces. ot occurs most frequently in the
- Caudal aspect of the proximal humeral head,
- Distomedial aspect of the humeral trochlea
- the lateral and medial femoral condyles
- the femoral trochlea
- medial and lateral trochlear ridges of the talus
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What kind of lysis does this describe?
- Multiple small to medium sized lucency’s
- Lesion margin - irregular and poorly defined
- Cortex - Usually destroyed contain radiolucent holes similar size and shape to medulla
- Adjacent bone abnormal
- Transistion zone poorly defined - wide
- New bone often present
- Rapid change 4-10 days
What would be the DDx’s
- Moth Eaten Lysis
- DDx
- Neoplasia (many types) Primary or Secondary
- Mycotic Osteomyelitis
- Bacterial Osteomyelitis less likely
How do we evaluate a joint?
- Synovial Tissue or Mass
- Joint Space
- Soft tissue opacity between SCB opposing surfaces
- Articular Cartlidge and film synovial fluid
- Subchondral Bone
- Fine opaque Line (<1mm), uniform thickness
- Margin smooth
- Adjecent bone or epiphyseal bone
- Peri-chondral (periarticular) bone (adjecten to chondrosyoval junction)
- Margin articular cartlidge and synovial membrane
- Capsular and ligament attachments
- Periarticular and intracapsular soft tissues
- Alignemtn and joint shape
What age related changes can you see on a thoracic radiograph
- Pulmonary Osteomas
- Fibrosis Lungs
- Mineralisation of airways
- Costochondral junctions and sternum
When taking Thoracic radiographs when do you want to take the image?
What do we include in our radiograph?
What is a routine study for thorax
At Full inspiration
Thoracic inlet (2cm cranial) to lung tips @ L1
3 View study Left, Right Lateral and VD or DV
When would you expect a dog to get an osteosarcoma?
When would you expect cats to get Osteosarcoma?
- Dogs
- 2 years and then later in adult life
- Cats
- Mean age is 10years
What are teh typical radiographic signs of Osteochondrosis
- Typical radiographic findings of Osteochondrosis include flattening or concavity of the addected subchondral bone surface with surrounding subchondral bone sclerosis. This may result in nonuniformity and apparent widening of the joint space. When mineralised a cartliage flap is sometimes seen within the subchondral defect, OCD
What is special about the Distal Ulna Physis?
- Responsible for 80% of the ulnar lenght
- Cone shaped
- Susceptible to trauma
What is Hypertrophic Osteopathy?
- HO is a generalised osteoproduction disorder of the periosteum that affects the long and short tubular bones of the extremities.
- This is usually caused by a thoracic mass or cardiopulmonary disease. Abdominal masses particularly those of urinary origin have also been known to cause HO
What is this showing in the thorax?
Pulmonary fissures, Pleural lines
Widening interlobar fissures = moderate to sever effusions (wedged at margins)
You read a radiograph with the following, what is your conclusion?
- Multiple small pinpoint areas lysis
- Bone appears porous
- Patchy Irregular pattern to trabecular markings
- Very poorly defined edges lysis
- Cortex - punctate lysis (pitted) or destroyed
What are some DDx’s
- Permeative Lysis
- DDx
- Rarely not infiltrative neoplasm
- Osteosarcoma, other tumours of bone most common
- Fungal Osteomyelitis less likely
What are teh closure times for the following
- Physis
- Apophysis
- Physis - 8-14months (larger breeds are the longer)
- Apophysis - 5-6months