Because navicular problems might affect soft tissue as well as bone, MRI is a better diagnostic tool than X ray in these cases, said Robert K. Schneider, DVM, MS, professor at Washington State ...

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The diagnosis of navicular disease in horses has been redefined since the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the feet of lame horses. The navicular bone is the small bone at the back of ...

In certain cases of navicular disease, drilling a hole into the navicular bone--a procedure called core decompression that's commonly used to treat human osteonecrosis (bone death caused by poor blood ...