Case Of the Month

GI Foreign Body

Guess The GI Foreign Body Part 2

This month we provide more GI foreign bodies for your sonographic entertainment.

Guess the gastrointestinal foreign body!…Revisited…

Similar to last month, I give you the sonogram and brief history and you guess the foreign body that is present. Don’t scroll down until you think you know what the structure is.

Case 1: An 8-yr old Jack Russel terrier presented for persistent vomiting.

Guess The GI Foreign Body Part 2

This month we provide more GI foreign bodies for your sonographic entertainment.

Guess the gastrointestinal foreign body!…Revisited…

Similar to last month, I give you the sonogram and brief history and you guess the foreign body that is present. Don’t scroll down until you think you know what the structure is.

Case 1: An 8-yr old Jack Russel terrier presented for persistent vomiting.

Case 2: A middle-aged FS Rottweiler presented for persistent vomiting after dietary indiscretion at a Sunday BBQ. Medical therapy was able to stop the vomiting but anorexia persisted.

Case 3: A 2-year-old Labrador retriever presents for vomiting and anorexia that is non responsive to medical therapy. Gastric and duodenal dilation with hyperperistalsis are present

Case 4: A 3 1/2-month old stray dog was brought to the veterinarian by a good Samaritan couple that found him by a garbage bin shocky, lethargic, and anorexic.

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More information regarding the diagnosis of GI obstructions may be found in the resources tab on SonoPath.com where much of our research and articles are available. In particular see our abstract and PPT from ECVIM 2009 “Sonographic Criteria for the Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Obstruction in 39 Dogs and Cats.”

Tons more GI obstruction and pseudo-obstruction cases are present in our searchable case archive for members of the SonoPath community. If you are not a member consider registering in our community, search out cases, post your video and case info to the community, and join the curve the SonoPath community lives for.

Some of the images presented are part of the 400 images of sonographic pathology contained in the Atlas of Veterinary Sonographic Pathology-Small Animals and Exotics offered in the products page here at SonoPath.com.