Corin, Antonia
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
COMPUTEDTOMOGRAPHYEVALUATIONOFINTRA-ARTICULARMINERALIZATIONINFELINESTIFLEJOINTSA.Corin,C.Ley,A.Leijon,C.J.Ley.FromtheDepartmentofClinicalSciences(Corin,Ley)andDepartmentofBiomedicalSciencesandVeterinaryPublicHealth,SwedishUniversityofAgriculturalSciences,UppsalaSE-75007,Sweden(Ley,Leijon).Introduction/Purpose:Intra-articularmineralization(IAM)isacommonradiographicfndingincatstifle.TheetiologyofIAMremainsunknown,althoughseveralstudieshaveshownacorrela-tionwithosteoarthritis(OA).Theaimsofthisstudywereto(a)investigatecorrela-ionsbetweenIAMandtheparametersage,sex,catsize,andsesamoidvolumes;(b)investigatepossiblecorrelationsbetweenIAMandOAcartilagelesions;(c)comparethesizeofIAMincomputedtomography(CT)imagesandradiographsofthesamestifle.Methods:Rightstifljointsfrom28cats(16MN,9FN,3F),age1-23years(mean9.9),weight2.1-7.3kg(mean3.9)thatdiedforreasonsunrelatedtothestudywereexaminedpostmortemwithCTandradiography,followedbymacroscopicandmicroscopicevaluationofjointtissues.Femurvolume,IAMvolume,andsesamoidmineralizedtissuevolumesweremeasuredinCTimages.Intra-articularmineralizationareawasmeasuredinmediolateralprojectionradiographsandcategorizedaccordingtoapublishedstudy.1Allmeasurementsweredonebyoneauthor(C.J.L.).ThearticularcartilagewasgradedforpresenceofOAlesionsbytwoauthors(C.L.,A.L.)usingconsensusandwithlightmicroscopyhistology.OsteoarthritisgradeswerecomparedwiththepresenceandvolumeofIAMinCTimages.Regressionanalysis,t-tests,andFisherexacttestswereusedandvaluesofP
Published in
Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound
2016, volume: 57, number: 6, pages: 658-658
Publisher: Wiley
Conference
2016 European Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging conference, Poland, September 2016
SLU Authors
Ley, Cecilia
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Leijon, Alexandra
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Ley, Charles
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
UKÄ Subject classification
Pathobiology
Clinical Science
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/80637