Chapter Outline

Musculoskeletal Development

Orthopedic Examination

• The Young Dog with Hindlimb Lameness
• The Young Dog with Forelimb Lameness

Congenital Musculoskeletal Diseases

• Retarded Growth
• Osteochondrodysplasia
• Dysostosis
• Joint Malformations
• Congenital Myopathies

Acquired Musculoskeletal Diseases

• Acquired Bone Diseases

Traumatic Injuries (Fractures)

Limb Deformities with Primary Skeletal Abnormalities

Nutritional Diseases

Developmental Orthopedic Bone Diseases

Miscellaneous

• Joint Diseases

Inflammatory Arthropathies

• Infectious arthropathies
• Noninfectious arthropathies

Noninflammatory Arthropathies

• Developmental orthopedic joint diseases
• Osteochondrosis

Shoulder

• Shoulder osteochondrosis

Elbow

• Elbow dysplasia
• United anconeal process
• Fragmented medial coronoid process
• Osteochondrosis of the medial humeral condyle

Hip

• Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
• Hip dysplasia

Stifle

• Femoral condylar osteochondrosis(itis) dissecans
• Patellar luxation
• Cruciate ligament avulsion

Tarsus

• Tarsal osteochondrosis(itis) dissecans

Acquired Musculotendinous Diseases

• Infectious Myopathies
• Traumatic Myopathies and Tendinopathies
• Limb Deformities without Primary Skeletal Abnormalities
• Dislocations

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