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                    Figure 17-2 • Eagle’s tibia being placed on a receiver before radiography (thus not everyone is wearing gloves). The oblong object on the

                    leg surface is a bandaged external fixator. The collimator light is on, and a lead marker has been taped to the cassette adjacent to the
                    tarsometatarsus.













































                    Figure 17-3 • Close-up, inadvertently flexed, craniocaudal view of the legs of a pea hen showing end-on projections of the femurs, or the
                    gun barrel sign.












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