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The incidence of thoracic trauma in dogs with skeletal injury
Author(s) -
SELCER B. A.,
BUTTRICK MARTHA,
BARSTAD ROBERT,
RIEDESEL DEAN
Publication year - 1987
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.1748-5827.1987.tb05967.x
Subject(s) - medicine , thoracic trauma , radiography , physical examination , incidence (geometry) , thorax (insect anatomy) , surgery , radiology , anatomy , blunt , physics , optics
One hundred dogs with skeletal injury were evaluated for co‐existing thoracic abnormalities. Parameters used to assess thoracic trauma were physical examination, thoracic radiographs, electrocardiograms and arterial blood gas PaO 2 . Thoracic abnormalities were found in 57 per cent of the dogs. Within this group, 77 per cent had abnormal thoracic radiographs, 44 per cent had abnormal low PaO 2 , and 30 per cent had cardiac arrhythmias. No clinical signs suggestive of thoracic injury were found on physical examination in 79 per cent of the dogs with thoracic lesions.