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• Navicular disease

  10 July 2006, by Philippe MIGAUD

  "Radiographic findings compatible with a diagnosis of navicular disease include spurring and osteophyte formation on the proximal or distal border, small lytic lesions in the distal border, large aeras of lysis in the center of the bone, and loss of cortical bone over the flexor surface." in Current therapy in equine medicine

  So to make a diagnosis of navicular disease we need clinical examination, and radiography can confirm or not the diagnosis. I think it will be interesting to do a radiography of this bone to compare it with pictures we use to see. Navicular disease is currently a consequence of hard exercice but there is also a genetic predisposition (as we can see that in old quater horse for example). We can see on that bone the tracks of an old pathology with a lot of suffering including lameness ; probably it is a navicular disease well evolued.

  Philippe MIGAUD, Vet Doctor, France

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