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A Postmortem Study on Ultrasonographic and Computed Tomographic Measurements of the Concavity of the Solar Surface in the Distal Phalanx of Cow Hindlimb Claws.
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Abstract
New bone formations (NBFs) in the tuberculum flexorium of the distal phalanx (DP) are considered one of the etiological factors inducing claw horn disruption lesions, which frequently occur in the lateral claws of cow hindlimbs. The pathological bone changes in the DP are often not clearly visible using routine ultrasonography (US) of bovine claws. Thus, to enable an evaluation of these changes using US, this report investigated the utility of the angle in the concavity of the solar surface of the DP (referred to as the DP-SS angle), which varies with the severity of NBFs in the tuberculum flexorium. A total of 484 pairs of hindlimbs from 242 lactating Holstein cows collected at a slaughterhouse were examined using computed tomography (CT), and 274 hindlimb pairs from 137 animals were examined using both US and CT. For lateral claws, the DP-SS angle values showed a moderate to strong negative correlation with the NBF width (r = -0.71), while a weak correlation was found for the medial claws (r = -0.25). The DP-SS angles measured using US were significantly (
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