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Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound: A Diagnostic Atlas and Text

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Chapter Two The Thorax 221<br />

Fig. 2-204 A 5-year-old Cairn<br />

Terrier with a chronic cough. Survey<br />

radiographs revealed bronchial<br />

thickening <strong>and</strong> a loss of normal<br />

tapering. A late-phase view of a<br />

bronchogram revealed the dilated<br />

bronchus with minimal tapering <strong>and</strong><br />

acute blunting (arrow). This<br />

bronchus is too large to be this far in<br />

the periphery. The blunting is due to<br />

an endobronchial mucus plug.<br />

Diagnosis: Tubular bronchiectasis.<br />

Fig. 2-205 A 1-year-old male mixed<br />

breed dog with a history of chronic<br />

respiratory problems. The lateral<br />

radiograph revealed multiple, round,<br />

thick-walled air-filled structures<br />

(solid arrow). Some structures were<br />

filled with a fluid density (open<br />

arrow). Diagnosis: Saccular<br />

bronchiectasis.<br />

condition can be detected radiographically. Focal areas of decreased pulmonary density<br />

may be detected more easily due to the contrast within the surrounding normal lung.<br />

Recognizing a generalized decrease in lung density is more difficult. An expiratory radiograph<br />

often will accentuate the difference between the normal lung density <strong>and</strong> the area<br />

of lucency.<br />

Intrapulmonary or subpleural bullae or blebs are the most frequently observed focal<br />

lucencies, although other cavitary lesions occur. Emphysema is a lesion that is characterized<br />

by an abnormal increase in the size of the air spaces distal to the terminal bronchioles,<br />

from either dilation of the alveoli or destruction of their walls. It may be focal or diffuse.<br />

Decreased blood flow, or oligemia, may be focal or diffuse <strong>and</strong> may result in an apparent<br />

decreased pulmonary density, which may be recognized radiographically.

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