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Ultrasound guided versus palpation guided intra-articular injection of the canine hip joint

Wernham, Benjamin Grant James ( 2016)

Canine hip dysplasia is a common orthopedic condition that results in progressive and often debilitating osteoarthritis. Intra-articular drug therapy holds much promise in the management of this chronic condition but intra-articular injection of the canine hip joint is challenging using a conventional palpation-guided approach. This thesis describes a feasibility and accuracy study to investigate a novel ultrasound guided imaging technique for intra-articular injection of the canine cadaver hip joint. Ultrasound-guided hip injection could be performed using a caudoventrolateral approach and excellent correlation was present between the sonoanatomy and gross anatomy. The results show that ultrasound-guided hip injection using a caudoventrolateral approach has similar to or better accuracy than that of a palpation-guided technique. No iatrogenic damage was noted with the procedure. Ultrasound-guided hip injection using a caudoventrolateral approach is an accurate and minimally invasive technique for injection of the canine cadaver hip joint.