Elbow dysplasia and lesions of the medial coronoid process: correlation between tomographic and arthroscopic findings in thirty cases

Thirty cubital joints belonging to 16 dogs with clinical and radiological signs of elbow dsysplasia were examined by CT and arthroscopy. The observation and analysis of the data has pointed out a discrepancy between the lesions seen in CT and those observed with the arthroscopy. In general considering the lesions of the MCP, the CT had the tendency to overestimate morphostructural alterations, in particular concerning FCP type II. This work has underlined the fact that the two imaging techniques, however, does not have to be considered in competition, but as complementary, and it suggests further evaluations of the fissurations of the MCP by CT, as a possible technique for the precocious diagnosis of FCP.