Imaging diagnosis--enostosis-like lesion in the femur of a horse

Vet Radiol Ultrasound. 2009 Sep-Oct;50(5):509-12. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-8261.2009.01581.x.

Abstract

An enostosis-like lesion was diagnosed in the left femur of a Swedish Warmblood horse that had a left hindlimb lameness of 3 weeks duration. With scintigraphy using technetium 99m-hydroxymethylene diphosphonate (99mTc-HDP) a marked regional focal increase in radioactivity was identified in the medullary cavity of the left femur. Radiographically there was a corresponding focal increase in bone opacity in the middiaphysis of the left femur. Histopathologically, a 5cm area of bone matrix was present in the diaphysis of the left femur and confirmed as an enostosis-like lesion. Enostosis-like lesions should be considered as a source of pain in horses with difficult to localize, moderate to severe chronic lameness.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bone Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Bone Diseases / pathology
  • Bone Diseases / veterinary*
  • Femur / diagnostic imaging*
  • Femur / pathology
  • Horse Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Horse Diseases / pathology
  • Horses
  • Lameness, Animal / etiology
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Technetium Tc 99m Medronate / analogs & derivatives

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • technetium Tc 99m hydroxymethylene diphosphonate
  • Technetium Tc 99m Medronate