HOW TO TAKE AND INTERPRET RADIOGRAPHS OF THE YOUNG PERFORMANCE HORSE
Fig. 5. Example of a horse with a cortical fracture and the appearance of the fracture taken 30 days later. The four standard projections taken from proxi-
mal and distal perspectives typically create a mini- mum of eight radiographic images. Most of the pathology that we find (especially in the 2-year-old Thoroughbred racehorse) is in the mid diaphysis on the Cd45M–CrLO projection (Fig. 2, red line); there-
fore, we usually recommend taking a few additional views, concentrating on the center of the tibia. The end result is up to 10 images per tibia. Be- cause the occurrence of bilateral tibial stress frac- ture can be high,1,3 it can amount to up to 20 radiographs per patient.
