论文信息 - Identification of normal parameters for ultrasonographic examination of the equine large colon and cecum.

Identification of normal parameters for ultrasonographic examination of the equine large colon and cecum.

Six healthy horses were examined by using transabdominal ultrasonography, as described (1-3), to evaluate activity and size of the large colon and cecum at various locations. Using size and number of sacculations, activity patterns and contractile frequency; significant differences that would allow ultrasonographic identification of dorsal versus ventral colons, if they were displaced, were not found. The cecum had significantly greater activity than the colon, and a trend was seen towards smaller sacculations in the cecum than in the large colon.

E. Malone | A. Sage | E. H. Hendrickson

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