– 5-6 yr old female Cocker Spaniel HBC and brought in by animal control as a stray
– shelter asked me to scan as she had a distended belly and thought she was pregnant
– u/s revealed no pregnancy but I saw an ovary so likely not spayed
– her entire abdomen otherwise filled with a fatty mass that appeared to slide off other organs and was encapsulated in some regions; this made complete evaluation of her abdomen difficult as this mass was taking up alot of space
– FNA’s showed lipocytes and oil droplets only so this may be a giant intra-abdominal lipoma
– 5-6 yr old female Cocker Spaniel HBC and brought in by animal control as a stray
– shelter asked me to scan as she had a distended belly and thought she was pregnant
– u/s revealed no pregnancy but I saw an ovary so likely not spayed
– her entire abdomen otherwise filled with a fatty mass that appeared to slide off other organs and was encapsulated in some regions; this made complete evaluation of her abdomen difficult as this mass was taking up alot of space
– FNA’s showed lipocytes and oil droplets only so this may be a giant intra-abdominal lipoma
– this patient is not obese otherwise so I don’t think this is normal intra-abdominal fat and she does not appear to have Cushings
I am scheduled to remove this mass on Monday and am wondering if anyone has had experience removing one of these? I have removed many very large subcutaneous lipomas which have been relatively straight-forward. Ideally I would love to send this patient for CT but this is not possible in this case.
