The Veterinary Record, Vol 98, Issue 22, 443-446
Copyright © 1976 by British Veterinary Association
Observations on growth plates in limbs of foals
MP Brown
and
FJ MacCallum
Observations were made which may be related to growth plate disorders. They included irregularity and thickening of the growth plate bridging of the plate by bony spicules, distortion of the plate adjacent to foci of fusion, and metaphyseal lipping. These observations are very similar to those found in "epiphysitis." The question had to be asked, where these normal foals or did they have sub-clinical "epiphysitis"?