Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Pony limping on back leg - how surgery helped
By Ball, M A et al.·Published in Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association·1996·Department of Large Animal Medicine, United States·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Surgical treatment of subchondral cyst-like lesions in the tibia of an adult pony.
- Species:
- horse
Plain-English summary
A 13-year-old pony was brought in for sudden lameness in the right hind leg. Initial X-rays showed no issues, but a special scan revealed abnormal areas in the bone. Nine months later, X-rays showed two cyst-like lesions in the tibia, which were surgically treated. One year after the surgery, the pony was sound and no longer limping.
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Abstract
A 13 year-old pony was evaluated because of right hind limb lameness of acute onset. Radiographs of the right tarsus obtained shortly after the onset of lameness were normal, but results of nuclear scintigraphy were abnormal. Two radiolucent subchondral cyst-like lesions of the distal part of the tibia were seen on radiographs obtained 9 months later. The lesions were surgically decompressed, and the pony was sound 1 year later. It is hypothesized that a traumatic insult created a crack or split in the articular cartilage that allowed subsequent development of the cyst-like lesions.
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