title: Local anesthetics and nuclear medical bone images of the equine fore limb.
abstract: The effects of two local anesthetic agents on the diagnostic quality of nuclear medical bone images (NMBIs) of distal parts of the equine fore limb were investigated. Local effects on bone uptake of technetium 99m methylene diphosphonate (99mTc-MDP) 4 and 24 hours after perineural and intraarticular injection of mepivacaine hydrochloride and bupivacaine hydrochloride were evaluated in the carpal and metacarpophalangeal regions of 12 horses and ponies. Neither mepivacaine hydrochloride nor bupivacaine hydrochloride significantly altered the diagnostic quality of the NMBIs. The injection and subsequent action of local anesthetics do not appear to influence local bone uptake of 99mTc-MDP significantly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Gaughan
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Kallfelz
mesh_terms: D000772:Anesthesia, Local / Q000662:veterinary*; D000818:Animals; D002045:Bupivacaine; D005260:Female; D005552:Forelimb / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006736:Horses / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008297:Male; D008619:Mepivacaine; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging
chemical_list: D008619:Mepivacaine; D002045:Bupivacaine