DIAG IMAGING 6

Question 1

imaging modality of choice for non-neuro head structures?
(larynx, ears, oral cavity)

Answer 1

CT

Question 2

imaging modality of choice for neuro?
-second choice?

-mode of choice for eye?

Answer 2

MRI
next is CT

-ultrasound best for eye

Question 3

primary hyperparathyroidism is due to parathyroid neoplasia. what does this do to bone? how?

Answer 3

lysis due to pulling calcium into blood

Question 4

2 causes of secondary hyperparathyroidism?

Answer 4

-nutritional: Ca deficit
-renal: excessive Ca loss

Question 5

normal size (mm) of parathyroid glands in ultrasounds?

Answer 5

1-3 mm diameter

Question 6

4 types of canine n feline nasal disease?

Answer 6

-rhinitis
-inhaled foreign body
-nasal neoplasia
-fungal rhinitis

Question 7

what condition? (blue)

Answer 7

bacterial rhinitis
[-can see opaque fluids n other material instead of all black air in turbinae
-can have some turbinae lysis

Question 8

what condition?

Answer 8

feline mycobacteriosis
-swelling bc it forms a granuloma
-tissue lysis aswell

Question 9

craniomandibular osteopathy…
-signalment? [breed, age]
-what is it?

Answer 9

-young WHWT
-pallisading new bone formation on mandible, tympanic bullae, TMJ, frontal bone.,,,

Question 10

what is the best/only diagnostic imaging method that works on the inner ear?

Answer 10

MRI

Question 11

this duck sign is which anatomical structure?
absence of this duck sign indicates what condition?

Answer 11

cochlea
-otitis interna

Question 12

are vertebral tumours easy to detect radiographically?

Answer 12

no. at least 30% bone loss required to b visible

Question 13

what is myelography?

Answer 13

-contract medium injected into subarachnoid space
-less used since we have mroe advanced tch now.e

Question 14

def more

Answer 14

try sm else