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X-ray of a kinked hatchling

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tbtusk

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This year I received one hatchling from two full clutches of eggs from my female amel stripe. That one snake eneded up being pretty severely kinked and had a deformed head. It's eyes were very small, and when it stuck out its tonge it came out as a loop. It was very strange. I may post some pictures tomorrow.

In any case, i put it down, as it was clear that this snake was not going to do very well. Afterwards, my mom had the idea to get the little guy x-rayed to see what the kinks looked like. The veterinarians thought it was incredably interesting and tried over and over to get a good x-ray. Everyone looked unfocused. The conclusion was that the snakes bones were not fully calcified, meaning x-rays could not detect their outlines as well as they would a normal bone. Apparently, although I have not looked this closely at the x-rays yet, the spine is broken at all of the kinks, and actually overlaps itself at some of them.

I'd never heard of an xray of a kink, and thought this result was pretty interesting. It is not what I expected at all. Any ideas about how this kind of snake would form? Has anyone tried or seen anything like this x-ray?
 
I work in radiology. When you take x-rays of babies, it's so weird- the non-calcified bones, such as the wrist, are invisible.

I have a kinked snake which I would like to x-ray, as soon as I feel she is strong enough to go to work with me for the whole day.
 
Interesting idea. I'll see if I can get a chance to x-ray an '07 kinked snake at work. It should be old enough to be pretty well calcified by now. All I need to do is sneak it in to work when Godzilla isn't in, manage to get into the x-ray room without being detected by all the security cameras that Godzilla "never" looks at (even from her home computer) to see what everyone is doing, take the x-ray (if I can figure out the setting for something that small), develop it (again without being seen or missed) and hide it until I can find a way to get it out to my car, smuggled in with the trash on it's way to the dumpster. No problem!
 
Nanci said:
I work in radiology. When you take x-rays of babies, it's so weird- the non-calcified bones, such as the wrist, are invisible.

I have a kinked snake which I would like to x-ray, as soon as I feel she is strong enough to go to work with me for the whole day.
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Wow , great to have an expert around.

I'm curious as to whether the kink in either of you guy's snakes might look different compared to my snake's. The kinks in this hatchling were pretty serious, so with milder kinks I wonder if the spine would be fractured at all.

Please let me know if you manage to get an xray - susan, sounds like you've got your work cut out for you... haha

It be great to get some other examples of this.
 
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