Videocapillaroscopy is mainly performed at the nailfold where capillaries run parallel to the skin, which enables visualisation of the whole length of the capillary loops.
This was chosen in this initial study because, at this location, the skin surface is relatively flat and the thoracolumbar fascia is relatively parallel to the skin, which simplifies calculation of lateral displacement.
It is important not to pull wax up off the skin, rather to pull parallel to the skin, back over top of the waxed area.
Insert the tip of the needle horizontally, (parallel to the skin) below the surface layer of dead skin and above the living tissue.
The plate was positioned parallel to the skin surface and acted as a guard to maintain a constant indentation of the probe into the skin of the testing site and to limit the spread of surface waves across the skin.
On ultrasound, it is an oval-shaped lesion with circumscribed margins, parallel to the skin with variable echogenicity (hyperechoic in 45% of cases) (Fig. 5).
The A/y 0 ratio represents the relative amount of crystals oriented parallel to the skin surface and varies from zero (when A = 0 in a purely random system) to infinity (when A is high and y 0 is close to zero in a perfectly ordered system).
In many animals, hardened corneal growths occur at the end of the digits, growing parallel to the skin surface.
Ultrasound: oval-shaped, hyperechoic mass of the subcutaneous fat, parallel to the skin.
