Tips for viewing portal hills
Not a case, just a question… Are there any links, videos or tips to viewing the portal hilus? It’s one area that I never feel I see or recognize consistently. I know there are series on the adrenal glands and such, but I’m wondering if anything like that exists for the hilus?? Sam Doverspike
Dog Ate 200 Ibuprofen
Trevor is a 4 year old Beagle that ate ~200 ibuprofen 3 days ago. Was able to induce vomiting w/in 20 minutes and gave charcoal, but within 3 hours of presentation was seizuring and hypothermic. Treated w/ high volume fluids, anti-convulsants and Intralipid…Today is eating/drinking and acting like a normal Beagle (tried to get into…
Diaphragmatic Hernia???
Lulu is an older dog that I ultrasounded as part of a work up for surgery to remove a lip mass. The radiographs grabbed my attention. So I scanned the left thoracic caudal area after looking at the heart (had a 3/6 murmur) I think I’m seeing a chunk of liver in the thorax and…
Follow up on “Is this adrenal mass causing this dog’s collapse”
Here are 2 cines from the right side. I had tried to post the right kidney mainly because I wasn’t sure of where the right adrenal was…but in looking at it I think I see the left adrenal near the end of the loop. The second loop is from right side sliding caudal..I thought this…
Adrenal Mass As Cause Of This Dog’s Collapse???
Brutus, 13 year old Rott. Cross. Started with respiratory distress and labored breathing today. Labs: Creat-3.9 BUN-58 Phos-8.0 K-6.1 Chest Rads: Some increased interstitial pattern in cd/dorsal and middle lungs. Heart shadow looks smaller than normal Quick Cardiac U/S: seems like LV walls greatly thickened but with smaller size of LVID I’m leaning towards under/poor…
Hepatic Abscess
Little is a 14 year old Himalayan cat presented 1 month ago ADR with palpable cranial abdominal mass. Labs showed Slight neutrophilia w/ 8% bands & some liver enzyme elevations. U/S: Cystic mass in right cranial abdomen, appears to be within hepatic tissue. GB slightly enlarged and prominent, slightly tortuous bile duct. Drained 8 ml…
Pancreas Lesion?
Chloe is a 12 year old Peke X. Had one episode of V/D last week and Lots of V/D in past 24 hours. PE was not enlightening & owners declined bloodwork. Did quick abd scan… I see hyper-echoic uniformly granular “masses” in association w/ each kidney??? Or possibly pancreas??? What I see of the rt/lt…
Prostatits vs. Neoplasia
Wilson is a 13 year old intact male that is leaking urine constantly and having dysuria. Urinary catheter passed easily and withdrew 170ml clear urine. Urinalysis mostly benign, slight increase in WBC’s
Thank You
I thought this was as good of a place as any to put this… I recently attended the Andover, NJ SDEP meeting and found it to be excellent and well worth my time. Here I am a month or so later, working through my 17 steps and I get a package from Sonopath with pictures…
Probable Mass in Heart
Lizzie is an 11 year old Dalmation cross presenting for ADR post dental about 1 month ago. Blood work at that time was normal Radiographs show pleural effusion, U/S shows PCE and PE along w/ cardiac tamponade. I think there is in the mass in the vicinity of the right auricle, but my anatomy is…