Sentences with phrase «where fragments of bone»

The most common causes of elbow pain in young dogs are elbow dysplasia, where fragments of bone (medial coronoid process) are present in the elbow joint and un-united anconeal process where a portion of one of the bones that forms the elbow fails to fuse.

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The project revealed several PET capabilities for equine imaging: • identified small areas of bone remodeling at the attachment of tendons or ligaments missed with other modalities • showed increased activity in bone adjacent to joints, where degenerative changes are known to occur, before morphological changes were present • revealed increased activity in some joint fragments whereas other joint fragments appeared quiet • demonstrated that some areas of bone proliferation were active, whereas others were quiescent.

In cases where a fragment of sesamoid bone has broken away with the damaged ligament (avulsion fracture), the prognosis is poorer.

A comminuted fracture is when the bone is splintered or fragmented, with a minimum of three fracture fragments (fragments may be small or large), where the fracture lines interconnect.