Caudal cervical vertebral morphological variation is not associated with clinical signs in Warmblood horses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Variation in equine caudal cervical spine morphology at C6 and C7 has high prevalence in Warmblood horses and is suspected to be associated with pain in a large mixed-breed group of horses. At present no data exist on the relationship between radiographic phenotype and clinical presentation in Warmblood horses in a case-control study.

Objectives

To establish the frequency of radiographically visible morphologic variation in a large group of Warmblood horses with clinical signs and compare this with a group without clinical signs. We hypothesised that occurrence of morphologic variation in the case group would not differ from the control group, indicating there is no association between clinical signs and morphologic variation.

Study design

Retrospective cas

SUBMITTER: Veraa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027909 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature