Radiographic parameters for diagnosing sand colic in horses 英文参考文献.docVIP

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMedCentral Research Open Access Radiographic parameters for diagnosing sand colic in horses Anna Kendall*1,2, Charles Ley1, Agneta Egenvall2 and Johan Br?jer2 Address: 1University Hospital of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7040, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden and 2Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden Email: Anna Kendall* - anna.kendall@kv.slu.se; Charles Ley - charles.ley@uds.slu.se; Agneta Egenvall - agneta.egenvall@kv.slu.se; Johan Br?jer - johan.brojer@kv.slu.se * Corresponding author Published: 13 June 2008 Received: 28 May 2008 Accepted: 13 June 2008 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008, 50:17 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-50-17 This article is available from: /content/50/1/17 ? 2008 Kendall et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Ingestion of sand can cause colic, diarrhoea and weight loss in horses, but these signs are unspecific and can have many other causes. The amount of sand that induces disease may vary between individuals. To avoid over-diagnosing, it is important to determine the amount of sand that can be found in horses without clinical signs of gastrointestinal disease. The aim of this study was to use previously suggested parameters for establishing a radiographic diagnosis of sand colic, and compare these findings between a sand colic group and a control group. Methods: Abdominal radiographs were obtained in 30 horses with a complaint unrelated to the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, archived abdominal radiographs of 37 clinical cases diagnosed with sand impaction were investigated. The size of the mineral opacity indicative of sand in the abdo