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Irregular intestinal mucosal margination in the dog: normal or abnormal?
Author(s) -
THRALL DONALD E.,
LEININGER JOEL R.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.1976.tb06962.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gastrointestinal tract , etiology , pathology , radiography , contrast (vision) , anatomy , radiology , artificial intelligence , computer science
The apparently random variability of the margination of the small bowel observed during contrast radiography prompted an investigation to determine the significance and aetiology of such a finding. Upper gastrointestinal tract contrast radiography of twenty‐five dogs revealed a marked variation in the smoothness of mucosal margination. Gross and histological examination of the small bowel of these dogs revealed no lesions which could account for the variation in mucosal margination. It was noted that the spatial arrangement of the villi varied in such a way that the degree of irregularity of the mucosa observed radiographically could depend on the ability of the contrast medium to dissect around upright villi.