Infectious coccygeal discospondylitis in an adult trotter horse Infectieuze discospondylitis ter hoogte van de staartwervels bij een volwassen draver

This case describes the clinical and radiographic appearance, medical treatment and long-term followup of a 6-year-old French trotter stallion that was referred with an acute onset of pain and swelling at the tail-head without a history of traumatic insult. Radiographic examination revealed multiple semicircular and millet-sized radiolucencies at the endplates of several adjacent caudal vertebrae, indicative of infective discospondylitis. The horse made a full clinical recovery after 7 weeks of antibiotic treatment with oral trimethoprim-sulfonamides and successfully resumed its athletic activities. Follow-up radiography after one year showed only slight residual irregularity at the epiphyses, without exuberant new bone formation or persis ting