Imaging diagnosis-an atypical presentation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (dish) in a dog.

A 10-year-old female spayed Dalmatian was evaluated for progressive cervical scoliosis and stiffness. This imaging report describes the imaging and postmortem findings for this patient. A diagnosis of an atypical manifestation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) was made based on imaging and additional diagnostics. This report serves to increase awareness of DISH in the veterinary community, as well as to describe a unique presentation of the disease with atypical lesion distribution and severity. In addition, this report contrasts the pathophysiology and imaging characteristics of DISH with spondylosis deformans, which can appear comparable radiographically.

[The use of bone morphogenetic proteins in delayed fracture healing, pseudoarthrosis and in ulna osteotomy carried out because of elbow joint diseases]. / Die Anwendung knochenmorphogenetischen Proteins bei verzögerter Frakturheilung, Pseudarthrose und bei wegen Ellbogengelenkerkrankungen durchgeführter Ulnaosteotomie.

This study deals with the application of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) as an osteoinductive factor in the treatment of fractures and elbow disease in the dog. Partially purified canine bone morphogenetic protein (cBMP) was used in the repair of a delayed union fracture and a pseudoarthrosis. The cBMP was applied in Biocoral and Tricalciumphosphate carriers using a subcortical grafting method. Two dogs suffering from incongruence and subluxation of the elbow joint were treated with a partially purified bone morphogenetic protein of moose bone origin placed in the gap produced by ulnar osteotomy.

[Postoperative staphylococcal infection as a late complication following treatment of pseudarthrosis (author's transl)]. / Postoperativ stafylokockinfektion som senkomplikation till behandling av pseudartros.

The study describes a case of postoperative infection following surgery of a humeral pseudarthrosis in a dog. The infection was manifested by fistulas which healed after treatment with different antibacterial drugs, but recurred on six different occasions during a period of twenty months after the operation. Staphylococcus aureus or epidermidis was isolated after aerobic incubation while no microbes were detected after anaerobic incubation. The infection appeared to be localized to a suture of polypropylene. The infection regressed and no more fistulas appeared after this suture had been removed.