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Bizzare Kidney Mass

Sonopath Forum

Bizzare Kidney Mass

3 year old MN DSH presented to RDVM as owner felt a mass in the abdomen.

3 year old MN DSH presented to RDVM as owner felt a mass in the abdomen. Pet otherwise doing well but slowing down, grade 4 systolic heart murmur – bloodwork showed slight elevation in BUN but urine SG 1.030 (complete U/A not performed) – very large mass, cystic filling most of the abdomen – appears to be coming from left kidney but a second half may be coming from somewhere else – normal left kidney not found but can see what looks like part of left renal cortex (see below) – right kidney normal in size but internal architexture starting to distort – liver, spleen and urinary bladder normal -could not assess pancreas, adrenals and SI due to mass occupying most of abdomen – abdominal effusion – possible HCM, no LAE, no pleural or pericardial effusion (quick look in chest) – multiple FNA’s taken and sent out but not overly hopeful they will be diagnostic – what could this be? to me not typical for PKD – contemplating surgery to remove as renal function still good however right kidney may be soon to follow. Below is lateral x-ray sent by RDVM and u/s images (taken from iPhone (sorry) as my MyLab 50 is on the blitz and could not save images – an Alpha may be on its way soon!) Third image not labelled but is the right kidney.

 

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Comments

Anonymous

This looks like a really bad
This looks like a really bad pkd with potential infection which would explain the slowing down part. It looks contiguous as you say to some residual renal parenchyma. If that were not the case then pancreatic or mesenteric cysts come to mind. Ex-lap needed for sure and check out the rk as well and maybe bx it proactively.

Anonymous

This looks like a really bad
This looks like a really bad pkd with potential infection which would explain the slowing down part. It looks contiguous as you say to some residual renal parenchyma. If that were not the case then pancreatic or mesenteric cysts come to mind. Ex-lap needed for sure and check out the rk as well and maybe bx it proactively.