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For today’s tech tip, we’re revisiting a unique approach to hedgehog radiographs!
Hedgehogs are challenging patients to obtain radiographs due to their antipredator behavior of balling up, and the presence of dorsal spines controlled by a complex of muscles, that can obscure your radiographic view.
Sedation or anesthesia is typically required to obtain diagnostic quality radiographs, with the exception of extremely depressed or moribund patients. Hair clips can be used to gently pull the dorsal spines out of the way.
Pictures is an amelanistic (albino) African Pygmy Hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris) who is sedated for the purpose of taking radiographs. (Not pictured is the heat packed towel that she is quickly returned to between taking images.)
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