Avaliação clínica e por imagem dos membros torácicos de equinos.

Abstract

This dissertation includes two articles on clinical evaluation and imaging (radiography and ultrasound) forelimb of horses, which are methods used in the examination of horses in order to be a complement between them. The first chapter refers to ultrasonographic evaluations performed on superficial flexor tendons of the forelimbs of horses used in vaquejada, determining the average cross-sectional area into seven zones of teh tendon, in horses at rest and after exercise, and according to their activity performed in vaquejada. In this study, it was concluded that ultrasonography provides a precise measurement of the cross-sectional areas of the zones of the superficial digital flexor tendon, which in this study varied as the activity performed by horses in vaquejada, significant differences with respect to the limb examined and to the time of assessment. The second chapter is an article that describes a case of anomalies (polydactyly) uncommon in horses, incidence of low, around 0.066%, and its etiology is not well described. We describe the clinical and radiological findings and treatment through ostectomy of supernumerary digit.