- 2 year old female rescue chicken with chronic upper respiratory disease
- Received a progesterone implant 6 months ago to prevent egg laying
- Has been depressed and off-feed for the past few days.
- Blood work is normal
- Radiology consult on radiographs stated high suspicion for egg yolk peritonitis and recommended an ultrasound and or ovariohysterectomy. RDVM questions the consult as the blood work does not fit.
- 2 year old female rescue chicken with chronic upper respiratory disease
- Received a progesterone implant 6 months ago to prevent egg laying
- Has been depressed and off-feed for the past few days.
- Blood work is normal
- Radiology consult on radiographs stated high suspicion for egg yolk peritonitis and recommended an ultrasound and or ovariohysterectomy. RDVM questions the consult as the blood work does not fit.
- This was my first time scanning a chicken and I was not allowed to pluck feathers. I also do not think the bird was fasted.
- There was no intra-abdominal effusion and no obvious evidence of egg binding or inflammation.
- I used a ventral abdominal approach from just behind the xiphoid, aiming cranial and dorsally. I kept coming across this shadowing linear echogenic structure on the left side of the abdomen at the level of the xipohid and don’t know what it is (I am n=1 for chickens). All images are sagittal and oblique sagittal.
- My rule outs include normal GI gas shadowing, GI FB, or malformed egg.
- I tried to scan a rooster for comparison and could not find the same structure although he had much denser feathers (smaller window for me).
- Any other thoughts?