Evaluation of femoral head and neck new bone from a grey wolf (Canis lupus lupus): When is it pathology? | ||
| Journal of Veterinary Anatomy | ||
| Article 3, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 39-48 PDF (679.84 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jva.2016.37447 | ||
| Authors | ||
| D. F. Lawler* 1; R. H. Evans2 | ||
| 1Illinois State Museum, Research and Collections Center, 1011 East Ash St., Springfield, IL 62703, USA | ||
| 2Pacific Marine Mammal Center, 20612 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, USA | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The ongoing debate about coxo-femoral joint disease in domestic dogs indicates that new research is needed. Affected non-domestic canids are reported occasionally; we examined skeletal remains of a grey wolf and reported our observations. Femurs of this specimen revealed articular margin new bone, mild new bone filling of the dorsal femoral neck, and a diagonal osteophyte line originating from the craniolateral aspect of the articular margin new bone. The latter extended in a cranioventral direction to the proximomedial femoral shaft, possibly representing new bone deposition along the margin of the joint capsule attachment. The features were incon- clusive by radiography. We suggest that some features of domestic dog coxofemoral joint disease may have ancestral origin, further underscoring the need for new research. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Caudal curvilinear os- teophyte (CCO); circumferential femoral head osteophyte (CFH); domestic dog; femur; grey wolf; new bone; osteoarthritis | ||
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