Swans have crash landings and hip injuries are more common than previously thought
Monday, November 26, 2012 - 20:31
in Health & Medicine
Injuries to mute swans' hips are believed to be uncommon. However, new evidence suggests that such injuries are more frequent than suspected but are under-recorded because of difficulties in diagnosis. They show that computerized tomography is far better suited to examine the hip joint than classical radiographic methods.