ANGIOGRAPHIC AND RADIOGRAPHIC PICTURE OF MANUS AND PES IN GOATS II FLUOROSIS

Document Type : Research article

Authors

Dept. of Animal Medicine, Faculty of Vet. Med., Assiut University,

Abstract

This work was carried out on 30 goats aged between 2-3 months and 3-4 years rearing on an endemic flurosed area. The clinical, laboratory examination were done to ensure that the animals were fluorosed. The radiological examination was carried out to declare the effect of fluorosis on the angiographic picture of the limbs in these animals. The angiographic examination was made by injection of the contrast media through the median and femoral arteries. The affected limbs showed hypervascularization which represented by dilatation of the blood vesseis as in the A.digitalis communis III, newly formed as those which appear in the exostotic bones as well as tort ious blood vessels as shown in the A.digitalis plantaris communis !and or sclerotic changes in the blood vessels which observed in the A.metatarsea dorsalis III, A.Digitalis communis il and V. cephalica. The bony changes were represented as bony exostosis, sclerosis and osteoporosis with cyst formation.