Tamanduá-bandeira (Myrmecophaga tridactyla): Anatomia aplicada a radiografia e tomografia do aparato hióide e coluna vertebral

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: BOGOEVICH, Andria de Melo
• Orientador(a): BORGES, Naída Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Ciência Animal
• Departamento: Ciências Agrárias - Veterinaria
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Diagnóstico por Imagem; Espinha; Myrmecophagidae; Xenarthra
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Imaging Diagnostic; Myrmecophadidae; Spine; Xenarthra
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::MEDICINA VETERINARIA::CLINICA E CIRURGIA ANIMAL::CLINICA CIRURGICA ANIMAL
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/863

The giant anteater is a peculiar mammal which during its evolutionary process, has undergone several body changes due to their insect-base diet. Although it is distributed throughout the country, it is a species typical of the Cerrado, which is threatened with extinction. In the last decade there has been an improvement in access to methods of imaging diagnostic in veterinary medicine, the availability of modern and faster techniques. These techniques have revolutionized the ability to explore non-invasive body parts. For a better interpretation of these techniques, knowledge of regional anatomy is required. However, data on radiographic anatomy of giant anteaters have not been reported. The aim of this study is to characterize and describe the outline contour of the spine bone and the hyoid bone of the giant anteater using radiographic and computed tomography images. Seven giant anteaters at various ages, from IBAMA, were used for radiographic examination and two adults for CT. The spine along its entire length and the hyoid elements were evaluated in all animals using both imaging techniques. Radiography provided satisfactory images of the bony contours and location of these structures, although the CT was more efficient to provide images with less overlap between them, allowing details identification such as the Xenarthrous process in the lumbar vertebrae, characteristic of the species, and the visualization of the V-bone in the hyoid apparatus.