Normal hips
What to look for
- Each femoral head sits deep in its acetabulum, more than half covered by its rim
- The joint space is a thin, even crescent
- Femurs parallel and the pelvis symmetrical: the position that hip scoring needs
Read the normal first
Learn the size of the heart, the lung fields and the outline of the diaphragm on this film, then open a finding from the list and slide between the two.
Source: Joel Mills, “Normal canine hips”, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. For learning: not a diagnostic service.
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