- 14 year old FS Daschund with history of IBD presumably ingested a couple of plastic fork tines last week
- She developed black, tarry diarrhea and began ingesting grass and vomiting. Appetite is also off.
- Barium series done 3 days ago showed some retention of barium in the stomach.
- 14 year old FS Daschund with history of IBD presumably ingested a couple of plastic fork tines last week
- She developed black, tarry diarrhea and began ingesting grass and vomiting. Appetite is also off.
- Barium series done 3 days ago showed some retention of barium in the stomach.
- Abdominal US shows ingesta in the stomach. There is also some shadowing present but I am having trouble convincing myself this is a foreign body. Can retained barium do this? The dog was not fasted for this study. The rest of the abdomen was nonremarkable.
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Retained barium can result in
Retained barium can result in shadowing, however, with the history, lack of improvement, and the gastric shadowing I would suspect a foreign body over the barium causing the shadowing.
Retained barium can result in
Retained barium can result in shadowing, however, with the history, lack of improvement, and the gastric shadowing I would suspect a foreign body over the barium causing the shadowing.
Depends when this dog ate
Depends when this dog ate before the scan as the echogenic fluid is consistent with I/d or similar that’s hanging around the stomach. The 2 cm shadowing structure is focally shadowing in the middle of it. Barium shadowing usually fills the lumen in a fluid fashion. This progressive shadowing structure has consistency of a corn cob or similar but rescan again before dx or scope to be sure it didn’t move down further or even into colon.
Depends when this dog ate
Depends when this dog ate before the scan as the echogenic fluid is consistent with I/d or similar that’s hanging around the stomach. The 2 cm shadowing structure is focally shadowing in the middle of it. Barium shadowing usually fills the lumen in a fluid fashion. This progressive shadowing structure has consistency of a corn cob or similar but rescan again before dx or scope to be sure it didn’t move down further or even into colon.
Thank you for your help! The
Thank you for your help! The owner reports that the dog passed a large amount of grass at 5 PM today and is now doing great… perky, normal appetite and normal stool. We’ll see if she stays that way.
PS. Eric, aren’t you suposed to be on vacation right now?
Thank you for your help! The
Thank you for your help! The owner reports that the dog passed a large amount of grass at 5 PM today and is now doing great… perky, normal appetite and normal stool. We’ll see if she stays that way.
PS. Eric, aren’t you suposed to be on vacation right now?