What’s your diagnosis?

Test your veterinary knowledge with our monthly Brain Teaser!

Presentation: A two-year-old female spayed Shih Tzu presents for hind limb lameness and non-reducible patella luxation.
Photo courtesy Kendra Freeman

Presentation

A two-year-old female spayed Shih Tzu presents for hind limb lameness and non-reducible patella luxation.

1) What grade of patella luxation is this?

a) I/IV

b) II/IV

c) III/IV

d) IV/IV

2) The grade of luxation may have been reduced with surgical intervention as a young, growing puppy.

a) True

b) False

3) What is the surgical treatment of choice for this dog?

a) Sulcoplasty

b) Soft tissue imbrication

c) Corrective osteotomies

d) All of the above

Check your answers on page 2.

Leave a Comment

Comments

Register

Sign-up for your account with Veterinary Practice News Canada. Your account gives you unlimited free access to our Newsletter Archives and our Digital Editions of Veterinary Practice News Canada.
Please check the box below to confirm you would like to be added to Kenilworth Media’s various e-mail communications (includes e-newsletters, digital editions of the magazine, a survey now and then, and offers to the veterinarian industry*).
 

Leave this empty:

*We do not sell your e-mail address to 3rd parties, we simply forward their offers to you. Of course, you always have the right to unsubscribe from any communications you receive from us, should you change your mind in the future.