Palatoschisis totalis and aspiration pneumonia in a three months old warmblood foal

In fools, palatoschisis occurs in a frequency of approximately 1 parts per thousand within the scope of a deformity. In most clinical cases a palatosc hisis is followed by on aspirationpneumonia ca using death or euthanazation of the concerned fool. Operative intervention is already described in the Veterinary literature. Because of ii's invasivity the operation of this def ormity causes much pain for the individual and contains poor prognosis. Thi s article reports on the clinical, endoscopical and computed tomographic fi ndings in an affected, three month old colt. The dimension of the palatosch isis is shown in computed tomographic scans, the simultaneous imaging of lu ng scans becomes possible. The diagnosis obtained thereby is confirmed by p ostmortal examination. At the end of the paper the possibilities of compute d tomography in the field of inner organs like the lung are discussed.