title: Diagnostic Imaging of the Lower Respiratory Tract in Neonatal Foals: Radiography and Computed Tomography.
abstract: Diagnostic imaging plays an essential role in the diagnosis and monitoring of lower respiratory disease in neonatal foals. Radiography is most widely available to equine practitioners and is the primary modality that has been used for the characterization of respiratory disease in foals. Computed tomography imaging, although still limited in availability to the general practitioner, offers advantages over radiography and has been used diagnostically in neonatal foals with respiratory disease. Recognition of appropriate imaging protocols and patient-associated artifacts is critical for accurate image interpretation regardless of the modality used.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, 1008 West Hazelwood Drive, Urbana, IL 61802, USA. Electronic address: klascola@illinois.edu.
authors.forename: Kara M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Lascola
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, 1008 West Hazelwood Drive, Urbana, IL 61802, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Joslyn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006736:Horses; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000662:veterinary*
keywords: Computed tomography; Diagnostic imaging; Equine; Radiography; Respiratory