Chip off the old block
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JACOPO CORSALINI is a senior veterinary surgeon at Bourton Vale Equine Clinic. Jacopo graduated from the University of Perugia in 2010. In Italy he worked in a stud and then on the surgical team in the referral hospital of Perugia University, where he completed his PhD. He worked in racing after achieving a masters in animal welfare, and in 2017 moved to the UK. His main interests include lameness, sport medicine and poor performance.
WHEN A FOUR-YEAR-OLD Hanoverian gelding is referred to Bourton Vale Equine Clinic with bilateral swelling of the hock, radiographic examination shows bilateral fragmentation of the tibia in both hocks (see X-rays overleaf).
Bone chips, or osteochondral fragments, refer to
