Diagnostics

Veterinary dentist Dr. Heidi Lobprise cites legal precedent for making the switch to this dental essential.

Make the most of maxilla. Maximize maxilla. The miracle of maxilla! Your maxilla radiographs will be tops! We could go on, but why not just get to the tips, right?

One capsule, and you can explore your veterinary patients entire gastrointestinal system.

If ultrasonography is the hot guy you met online, abdominal radiography is your adorable high school sweetheart. Metaphors aside, Dr. Anthony Pease says abdominal radiographs are a rapid, readily available method to give a valuable overview of the abdomen.

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If you tend toward fewer views, then yes. See how you're likely missing the complete picture.

What are your veterinary patients thinking? Two centers lead studies in attempt to discern canine cognition.

CSU steps in when Chester, a therapy dog who provided care at the Colorado theater shooting trial, developed sudden, severe pain.

It can be difficult to differentiate between these two orthopedic problems. Luckily, the sit test, among other diagnostic evaluations, can help.

Keep your equipment unkinked and at the ready with this reader tip.

CT scans provide exact models used to create plastic reproductions for education and surgery.

Dr. Garret Pachtinger explains how this technology is becoming more accessible in every-day practice, in terms of both cost and learning curve.

Since ultrasonography is becoming more accessible to all veterinary practitioners, learn all about this ultrasonographic examination protocol for trauma and start saving lives.

If you have access to this advanced imaging technology, use it to its full advantage by having it to guide you to exactly what you want to sample.

Veterinary radiologist Dr. Wm Tod Drost answers questions from CVC attendees about using ultrasonography to collect fine-needle aspirates and biopsy samples.

A hernia repair leads to this unusual radiographic finding.

Respiratory tract disease is both serious and extremely common

Coughing Dog with a Murmur: Now What?

In the dark ages of ultrasound, small intestinal loops were merely black rings on the ultrasound screen.

The goals of this lecture are to provide you with techniques of radiography and radiology of the dog and cat thorax

The normal vascular flow to the liver is dual with a larger portion coming portal vein (80%) than the hepatic arteries (remaining 20%).

The most important question to ask yourself is: Is the lung too opaque or too lucent?

Learning ultrasound is hard enough! Haven't we done enough just to make accurate descriptions and list most appropriate differential diagnoses?

The inherent poor contrast within the abdomen and the fact that soft tissue and fluid can not be differentiated radiographically means that contrast media are required for assessment of luminal surfaces, and therefore wall thicknesses of the gastrointestinal tract.

Looking to make an investment for your practice this year? Put a digital dental radiography unit on your wish list, and you and your patients will all have happy and healthy smiles.