VRU 2018 Flashcards
Insulinomas display what intensity on T2W fat saturated images?
Hyperintensity
Insulinomas display what intensity on T1W fat saturated images post contrast?
Isointense… this is different from humans.
What is the most common endocrine tumor in dogs?
insulinoma
When is more likely to have rim T2W hyperintensity in insulinomas?
When they are bigger than 2cm in width
What is the most common area for insulinomas to mets to?
Regional lymph nodes (portal) liver Omentum/mesentery
What intensity are mets from insulinomas on T2W?
Hyperintense
Pollard et al: Prevalence of pharyngeal collaspe, What was the prevelance in brachycephalic dogs? Compared to nonbrachycephalics with airway collapse or without airway collapse?
72% - Brachycephalic
28% - NonBC with airway collapse
7% - NonBC withOUT airway collapse
Pollard et al: Prevalence of pharyngeal collaspe, what is the definition of pharyngeal collapse?
Collapse due to dorsal displacement of the soft palate and ventral deviation of the dorsal pharyngeal wall
Pollard et al: Prevalence of pharyngeal collaspe, Partial collapse of the pharynx is considered what?
>50% collapse
Happens most commonly on inspiration
Oh et al: CT bronchial collaspe normal dogs: What was the percentage of collapse seen in the bronchi regularly in this paper?
~50% in normal dogs
Oh et al: CT bronchial collaspe normal dogs: What bronchi were most clinical affect?
Left cranial (dorsal and ventral segments) and left caudal lungs
The left cranial dorsal segment and the left caudal had collapse of over 50% on all of them.
Mavromatis et al: Utility of two view vs 3 view abdominal rads in canine: In this paper they found what significant difference between 3 and 2 view on acute abdomens in dogs?
No significant difference so said not to use it.
This is contraversial.
Mostafa et al: Prevalence of MCP in lame large breed dogs on rads: What was the prevalence of medial coronoid process disease in large breed dogs?
21%
Mostafa et al: Prevalence of MCP in lame large breed dogs on rads: What breeds were most associated with this disease?
Goldens
Labrador
30% of all cases
Mostafa et al: Prevalence of MCP in lame large breed dogs on rads: Gray-scale values (changes in regions based on opacity) was significantly increased in what region and associated with MCP disease? What region was not?
Subtrochlear-ulnar region grayscale value was increased
Radial grayscale was not.
Mostafa et al: Prevalence of MCP in lame large breed dogs on rads: Most common radiographic findings in diseased dogs?
- MCP shortened of deformed
- Subtrochlear-ulnar sclerosis.
- Osteophytosis (periarticular) - (50%)
- Medial coronoid process osteophytosis (7.5%)
Hahn et al: CT and rad comparsion of asmatic cats: What do the soft tissue pulmonary nodules represent on rad of asmatic cats?
Eosinophilic granulomas or mucus plugs
Hahn et al: CT and rad comparsion of asmatic cats: What does the “tree in bud” sign on CT represent?
Bronchiolar dilation with bronchiolar plugging by mucus, pus or fluid.
Usually associated with Bronchial disease
IT is non-enhancing
Hahn et al: CT and rad comparsion of asmatic cats: What is the definition of a bronchioles?
Lacking cartilaginous wall
Measuring <2mm
Hahn et al: CT and rad comparsion of asmatic cats: What is honeycombing and what does it mean?
It is peripherial cystic structures that are cogent with thick distinct walls.
This is evidence of fibrosis.
Hahn et al: CT and rad comparsion of asmatic cats: What is a mosaic pattern on CT and what does it mean?
A mosaic pattern is a patch work of hyper and hypoattenuation throughout the lungs.
This can mean two things:
- Vascular disease causing shunting away from the affect area
- Air trapping caused by bronchial disease or focal pulmonary emphysema.
- Pulmonary emphysema is a permanent elargement of the air spaces caused by destruction of the walls of the air spaces. - On CT it shows loss of normal tissue
Only way to differentiate this is using expiratory series which if bronchial disease you will see the mosaic pattern more but if vascular then it will stay the same.
Hahn et al: CT and rad comparsion of asmatic cats: What lungs were most affected on both modalities?
Right cranial and right caudal
Hahn et al: CT and rad comparsion of asmatic cats: Which modality found the most lesions?
CT and some were asymptomatic
Hahn et al: CT and rad comparsion of asmatic cats: What was the cutoff for HUs for dogs with pleural effusion and differentiating the types of pleural effusion? Cats?
14HU in dogs
<14HU likely transduate or chlyous
>14HU likley exudate, modified transudate or hemorrhage
No difference was noted in cats!
Pollard et al: Pharyngeal collapse in dogs: What specific brachycephalic breeds are predisposed?
English bulldogs
French bulldogs
Pugs
What type of sequence is a STIR and FLAIR?
FLAIR is a T2W
STIR is T1W
Dichinson et al: Loss of fluid suppression on post contrast FLAIR images: What des this mean to loose fluid suppression on post contrast FLAIR images?
Leakage of contrast in the ventricles or arachnoid space.
Gremillion et al: Radiographic findings and clinical factors in dogs with colonic torsions: What are radiographic findings of a colonic torsion?
- Segmental distention of the colon
- Focal narrowing of the colon
- Displacement of the cecum
- Displacement of the descending colone
- Mild to no SI distention
Gremillion et al: Radiographic findings and clinical factors in dogs with colonic torsions: What is the torsion sign after giving a barium enema?
Focal narrowing of the colon
Lognitudinal striation in a helical pattern
Gremillion et al: Radiographic findings and clinical factors in dogs with colonic torsions: What was the most common clinical signs?
- Vomiting
- Abdominal pain
- Hypovolemic shock.
Secrest et al: Triple phase CT of the pancreas in normal cats: Which limb of the pancreas was the biggest in cats?
Left lobe
No association with sex or age.
Secrest et al: Triple phase CT of the pancreas in normal cats: what was the mean attenuation of a normal cat pancreas and what was the highest phase?
Pre constrat - 45
Arterial - 96
Portal - 166 *** Highest
Delayed - 122
Sonet et al: Evaluation of the US findings with lepto: What were the findings (Renal, liver, gallbladder, intestines, peritoneum)?
Renal - Found in all dogs
- Increased cortical echogenicity - 100%
- Increased medullary echogenicity - 85%
- Reduced corticomedullary definition - 80%
- Cortical thickening - 75%
- Renomegaly - 60%
- Medullary bands - 14%
Liver - Found in 83% of dogs
- Hypoechoic
- Hepatomegaly
- Gallbladder sludge
- Wall thickening
- Mucocele (26%)
Intestines/peritoneum
- SI wall thickening
- Renrenal and peritoneal effusion.
- Lymphadenopathy
Sonet et al: Evaluation of the US findings with lepto: The presence of what might be a warning sign of lepto in dogs?
Gallbladder mucocele
Specchi et al: Saghetti sign in feline abdominal rads: What does this represent and what sex was this commonly in?
This represents spleno-systemic collateral circulation
Only seen in spayed females
Specchi et al: Saghetti sign in feline abdominal rads: Was this finding associated with hypertension?
NO… only one cat had hypertension secondary to a thrombus.
Specchi et al: Saghetti sign in feline abdominal rads: Where was this abnormal vessel normally?
Lateral to the left kidney, caudal to the spleen, extending caudally.
Smith et al: CT pulmonary trunk to aorta ratio in dogs with pulmonary hypertension: What severity of pulmonary hypertension is detectable (significantly difference ratio) compared to normal dogs?
Moderate and severe cases
Mild pulmonary hypertension is hard to see on CT.
Smith et al: CT pulmonary trunk to aorta ratio in dogs with pulmonary hypertension: What was the mean pulmonary trunk to aorta ratio in normal dogs in this study? What is the threshold suggested for severe and moderate pulmonary hypertension?
1.26 +/- 1.1
Suggest a threshold of >1.4 for moderate/severe hypertension
Thierry et al: Vascular conspicuity differs among injection protocols and scanner types for canine abdominal CTA: What three types of injection protocols were used in this study?
- Test bolus
- Bolus tracking
- Fixed- injection duration