VRU 2014 Flashcards
Nakamura looked at contrast-enhanced ultrasonographic findings in three dogs with insulinomas… what did they find about the enhancement pattern?
That they vary.
Vaquero et al: Traditional and novel vertebral ratios on Great Danes with and without wobblers, How was the new ratio measured?
IN the VD image
The distance between articular process joint vs vertebral body width (A/B)
Vaquero et al: Traditional and novel vertebral ratios on Great Danes with and without wobblers, the VD ratio was significant;y associated with what?
Spinal cord compression
Vaquero et al: Traditional and novel vertebral ratios on Great Danes with and without wobblers, The VD ratios was significantly smaller in affected GDs at what disc space?
C5-C6 and C6-C7
Vaquero et al: Traditional and novel vertebral ratios on Great Danes with and without wobblers, for each 0.1 unit increase in the VD ratio value there was a what % decrease in the odds of spinal cord compression being present REGARDLESS OF THE SITE?
65% decrease.
- 00 = 0.01 probability of compression
- 4 ration = 0.91 probability of compression
What is the difference betwen the intravertebral ratio vs intervertebral ratio when looking at cervical spondylomyopathy?
Intravertebral ratio– defined as the minimum in-travertebral sagittal diameter divided by the correspond-ing vertebral body height
Intervertebral ratio– defined as the minimum inter-vertebral sagittal diameter divided by the correspondingvertebral body height.
Szabo et al: CT bronchial wall to pulmonary artery diatmeter ratio in dogs, what ratios were more accurate, caudal lungs or cranial lungs?
Cranial when a receiver operating characteristic curve was produced
Szabo et al: CT bronchial wall to pulmonary artery diatmeter ratio in dogs, what ratio in the cranial lungs was found to have a 77% sensitivity and 100% specificity for predicting chronic bronchitits?
>0.6
Szabo et al: CT bronchial wall to pulmonary artery diatmeter ratio in dogs, what lungs were significantly greater in the ratio, caudal or cranial?
Cranial
Szabo et al: CT bronchial wall to pulmonary artery diatmeter ratio in dogs, was there a significance when hemithoraxes, weight of patient, age, image thickness or CT machine used was looked at?
NO
What is the sensitivity of thoracic radiographs diagnosising chronic bronchitits?
65%
Szabo et al: CT bronchial wall to pulmonary artery diatmeter ratio in dogs, what was the PPV and NPV of the cutoff of 0.6?
100% PPV
95% NPV
Szabo et al: CT bronchial wall to pulmonary artery diatmeter ratio in dogs, what lung lobes are considered most accurate?
Cranial.. Caudal is too small and all were under the 0.6 ratio even the affected.
What is the BA ratio cut off for bronchectasis in a cat?
0.9 ratio
Paragonimiasis is commonly seen in what lobes?
Caudal lungs
What is the common radiographic finding of paragonimous?
Multiloculated pneumatocysts in dogs (pic)
Ill-defined interstitial nodular densities in cats
Parzefell et al: MRI of CNS neosporosis: Most common characteristic of neospora?
****Bilateral and symmetrical cerebellar atrophy.
Spinal cord intramedullary lesions
Multifocal brain lesions (grey and white mater)
Parzefell et al: MRI of CNS neosporosis: Is transmitted how and is what kind of parasite?
Transmitted transplacentally
Obligate intracellular protozoan
Hart et al: US of the outer medulla in normal dogs: What size of dogs had the highest frequency of hyperechoic outer medulla?
<5kg
Younger dogs
Dogs >40kg did not have it at all.
Hart et al: US of the outer medulla in normal dogs: What is the conclusion of this study?
Hyperechoic appearance of the outer medulla in the kidneys can be normal appearance
Levine et al: Contrast fluoroscopy in dysphagic cats: What were the most common abnormalities noted in dysphagic cats?
- Hiatal hernia
- Esophageal strictures
- Esophageal dysmotility
ESOPHAGEAL PROBLEMS
No cricopharyngeal or oropharyngeal dysphagia noted.
Kutara et al: Triple phase CTA for hepatic masses: What were the characteristics of hepatocellular carcinomas? Nodular hyperplasia? Mets?
HCC - Heterogenous pattern with any contrast enhancement
Nodular hyperplasia - Homogenous pattern hyper to isoattenuating
Mets - Homogeneous and hypoattentuating
So you can tell the difference s they say.
Fina et al: CT characteristics of eosinophilic pulmonary granulomatosis in dogs: What age groups were these dogs? What infectious disease should be tested for?
Young <5yo
Large breed dogs
Heartworm
Fina et al: CT characteristics of eosinophilic pulmonary granulomatosis in dogs: What type of CT characteristics are seen?
Smoothly marginated, heterogeneous pulmonary mass
HONEYCOMB-LIKE enhancement pattern.
CAUDAL LUNG LOBES
Birch et al: CT of cisterna chyli in dogs: Where is the chyli located?
L1-L4
Birch et al: CT of cisterna chyli in dogs: What is the normal size (mm) and the normal Ao:cisterna chyli ratio?
5-9mm
0.3-0.7 - ratio
Birch et al: CT of cisterna chyli in dogs: What was the enhancement characteristics of the cisterna chyli?
Most (80%) mildly constrast enhanced
What are the types of tumor response criteria in MRI and contrast CT?
Rano
MacDonald
Recist
Lam et al: HU measurements of liver and kidney in cats with lipidosis: What was the findings of this paper?
HU (x-ray attenuation) is not accurate predictor of lipiodsis as they all were around 70HU.
Hanazono et al: US findings related to prognosis in canine TCC: What ultrasound characteristics were associated with a bad prognosis?
- Wall involvement
- Heterogeneous mass
- Trigone location
Hanazono et al: US findings related to prognosis in canine TCC: What was wall involvement on US related to?
Worst prognosis and histological muscular layer involvment.
Sislak et al: US characteristics of lipiduria in normal cat: Were the echoes in the bladder gravity dependent?
None of the lipid particles were gravity dependent.
Sislak et al: US characteristics of lipiduria in normal cat: Increase urine diaclyglycerol was significantly associated with what?
Clumping of echoes
Amoung of lipid droplets on urinalysis.
Amound of echoes seen on ultrasound.
Atiee et al: US of histo in cat spleen: What is the second most common fungal disease in cats?
Histoplasmosis
Atiee et al: US of histo in cat spleen: What types of histo are there?
Disseminated
Splenic
Atiee et al: US of histo in cat spleen: What are the US characteristics of histo in the spleen?
Enlarged spleen
Hypoechoic (homogeneous mostly - 1 cat had discrete nodules)
Atiee et al: US of histo in cat spleen: Was cytology of the spleen helpful in diagnosing histo?
Yes… highly specific but sensitivity is unknown.
Atiee et al: US of histo in cat spleen: What is the normal splenic thickeness of a cat?
7.1 +/- 1.2
Scrivani et al: Arterial flow on CT and Digital subtraction in cats with open or closed mouth: Where does the maxillary artery common course? What happens to that space when the mouth is open?
Between the angular process of the mandible and the rostrolateral wall of the tympanic bulla.
This space reduces significantly when the mouth is open. This distance was less on the ipsilateral to the gag.
Scrivani et al: Arterial flow on CT and Digital subtraction in cats with open or closed mouth: What happens to opacification of vessels in open mouth?
Reduced - maxillary arteries (rostral to the angular process) - The arteries that supply the eye orginate downstream from this and therefore this is why some cats might go blind from having their mouth open.
Cerebrum had reduced opacification compared to cerebellum
Cerebral arterial circle and basilar artery to the cerebellum had simultaneous opacification in 4/6 cats. (collateral flow is suspected) Normal flow is first Cerebrum then basilar
Maria et al: Rads of pulmonary fibrosis in nine cats: What were the three common things seen on histopath in all cats?
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Type 2 penumocyte hyperplasia
- Smooth muscle hypertrophy
Maria et al: Rads of pulmonary fibrosis in nine cats: What were the radiographic characteristics of these cats?
Super diverse: broncho-interstital, alveolar, masses, bullae, pleural effuse
Can mimic many other diseases: asthma, pneumonia, pulmonary edema, neoplasia.
Grosset et al: Rad anatomy and barium sulfate contrast time in bearded dragons: What was the dose?
15ml/kg of 35% suspension in an esophageal gavage.
Grosset et al: Rad anatomy and barium sulfate contrast time in bearded dragons: what is the emptying time of the stomach, SI?
Stomach 24h max
SI 24-48h max
Contrast to the colon 12-72h
Lande et al: Prevalence of CT subchondral bone lesiosn in the shoulder of dogs: What was a surprising finding in this paper?
Cyst-like lesion in the glenoid cavity of the scapula
Ryan et al: MRI of ventriculomegaly in english bulldogs: What is this?
Craniopharyngeal canal.
Thought to be lack of closure of rathke’s pouch. It seem no clinical signs and brachycephalic dogs are more prone.
Ryan et al: MRI of ventriculomegaly in english bulldogs: What was the conlcusion of this paper?
Lateral ventriculomegaly is common in bulldogs and likely incidental (not related to intracranial lesions)
Fusion of the rostral colliculi does not cause stenosis of the cerebral aquaduct and therefore not a reason for ventriculomegaly.
Ryan et al: MRI of ventriculomegaly in english bulldogs: What other common abnormalities are noted in bulldogs?
Septum pellucidum and corpus collosum atrophy or aplasia.
Joslyn et al: MRI contrast enhancement of extra-occular muscle in normal dogs: Is contrast enhancement of the extra-ocular muscles normal?
Yes with 45% enhancement - persisted at 10 min post contrast.
This is greater than the pterygoid (23% enhancement)
Secrest et al: Halo sign and reverse halo sign in dogs on CT: What are these signs and what do they mean?
Ground glass surrounding a pulmonary nodules
Is not associated with any type of disease.
Lisciandro et al: B-lines in dogs with lung disease vs normal: What was the percentage of dogs that did not have disease have B-lines and what percentage of dogs that did have disease had B-lines?
11% of normal dogs had B-Lines
100% of dogs with disease (left HF) had B-lines.