Joints and bones
After a year of lameness in a front leg, the cause was found in the elbow
- Patient
- male, 5 years
- Examination
- CT of the forelimbs, pre- and post-contrast
- Date
- September 2026
For about a year, a five-year-old patient had repeatedly been lame on his left front leg. The elbow is difficult to assess on X-rays because the bones overlap there, so the vet recommended a CT scan of both front legs.
In the left elbow, the CT showed disease of a small bony projection of the ulna, called the medial coronoid process. This is a form of elbow dysplasia. The projection had not broken off, the joint surfaces fitted together correctly, and there was no new bone or soft tissue change around the joint.