Comparative Veterinary Anatomy. A Clinical Approach

Table of Contents

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION 1. Clinical Anatomy Nomenclature

SECTION II: DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING 2. Introduction to Imaging Modalities

SECTION III: CANINE AND FELINE CLINICAL CASES 3. Axial Skeleton: Head, Neck, and Vertebral Column 4. Thorax: Helen Davies 5. Abdomen 6. Pelvic Organs 7. Thoracic Limb 8. Pelvic Limb 9. Integument and Mammary Gland

SECTION IV: EQUINE CLINICAL CASES 10. Axial Skeleton: Head, Neck, and Vertebral Column 11. Thorax 12. Abdomen 13. Pelvic Organs 14. Thoracic Limb 15. Pelvic Limb 16. Integument and Mammary Gland

SECTION V: FARM ANIMAL CLINICAL CASES 17. Axial Skeleton: Head, Neck, and Vertebral Column: Andr� Desrochers 18. Thorax 19. Abdomen 20. Pelvic Organ 21. Thoracic Limb 22. Pelvic Limb 23. Integument and Mammary Gland/Udder

SECTION VI: AVIAN CLINICAL CASES 24. Adaptations to Flight 25. Head and Neck 26. Thoraco-abdominal Cavity 27. Thoracic and Pelvic Limb 28. Integument/Feathers

SECTION VII: APPENDICES

SECTION VII: INDEX

Authors

James A. Orsini Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennett Square, PA, US. James A. Orsini, is an Associate Professor of Surgery, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Orsini received his DVM from Cornell University and completed his internship, surgery residency, and fellowship/lectureship training at Penn's New Bolton Center campus. He is board certified in surgery by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons with a special interest and expertise in orthopedic and reconstructive surgery and laminitis, amongst other surgery areas. He has published extensively on equine pediatric surgery, antimicrobials, laminitis, gastric ulcers, pain and anti-inflammatory medications and related fields with several hundred publications. He is co-editor of Equine Emergencies: Treatment and Procedures, which is in its fourth edition and published in seven languages. Dr. Orsini's current research interests are in understanding the pathophysiology of laminitis, prevention, and improved treatments. Nora S. Grenager University College Dublin. Alexander de Lahunta Emeritus James Law Professor of Anatomy, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY, US. Alexander de Lahunta graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 1951 and the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine in 1958. From 1958-1960 he joined the mixed animal practice of Drs. Carol and George Cilley in Concord, NH. He returned to the Department of Anatomy, College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University in 1960 for graduate study, where he was awarded a PhD in 1963 and appointed assistant professor at that time. Dr. de Lahunta spent 42 years on that faculty and retired in 2005. In the mid-1960s he organized and personally ran a consulting service for clinical neurology in the Teaching Hospital, as well as organized and taught a vertically oriented course in veterinary neuroanatomy and clinical neurology to first year students. For varying periods he has taught gross anatomy, embryology, applied anatomy and neuropathology. Dr. de Lahunta also received the ACVIM Robert Kirk Award. Dr. Kirk was his teacher as a student and mentor as a faculty member.