There is something just a little bit different on these, my vet shot about 20 films trying to get a better look at it and had them out for a consult with a radiologist.
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That's what Dr. S thought at first too well. I walked in and he asked me if Bogie had every fractured anything in his pelvic area. I almost had a heart attack.
You wrote me "transitional vertebrae" - I have never heard of that.
Does that cause cauda equina syndrome in German Shep?
Maybe it is just an incidental finding of no significance?
Did the reviewer explain if pathology is associated with this lesion?
Connie just PMed me a link about it.
LISTEN-Just because somebody can see something on a radiograph does not necessarily mean that bad outcomes are going to occur.
There may be tens of thousands of dogs with this Xray appearance who live to 12 years old and never have their spines Xrayed because they are perfectly healthy so no one knows that they have this.
My OFA report says "Transitional Vertebrae" below the phenotypic hip evaluation. What does this mean?
Transitional vertebra is an incidental radiographic finding noted during the evaluation process. Transitional vertebrae are a congenital malformation of the spine that occurs at the junctions of major divisions of the spine. Transitional vertebrae take on anatomic characteristics of both divisions of the spine it occurs between. The most common type of transitional vertebrae reported by the OFA is in the lumbar-sacral area where the last lumbar vertebral body takes on anatomic characteristics of the sacrum. Transitional vertebrae are usually not associated with clinical signs and the dog can be used in a breeding program. The OFA recommends breeding the dog to a dog with a clear family history for transitional vertebrae.
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There may be tens of thousands of dogs with this Xray appearance who live to 12 years old and never have their spines Xrayed because they are perfectly healthy so no one knows that they have this.
I always do spines if I'm doing hips/elbows ect and I was surprised that not more people did, especially on dogs that are trained hard.
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