– 5 month old male Labrador Ret. who had a  one day history of vomiting with some frank blood in it 3 days prior to ultrasound

– rDVM started the dog on sulcrate and rice/ground beef diet and gave cernia injection on that day

– clinically dog is doing well, maybe a little quieter – no v/d since episode and eating well but owner concerned as two weeks prior she thought the dog ate a small flashlight that clipped onto the leash as it had gone missing – she did not see the dog eat it though.

– scan revealed no evidence of a FB or obstuctive pattern

– 5 month old male Labrador Ret. who had a  one day history of vomiting with some frank blood in it 3 days prior to ultrasound

– rDVM started the dog on sulcrate and rice/ground beef diet and gave cernia injection on that day

– clinically dog is doing well, maybe a little quieter – no v/d since episode and eating well but owner concerned as two weeks prior she thought the dog ate a small flashlight that clipped onto the leash as it had gone missing – she did not see the dog eat it though.

– scan revealed no evidence of a FB or obstuctive pattern

– pyloric-duodenal junction normal (what do you think?)

– thickened pyloric wall with wall layering maintained and moderately thickened/hypertrophic muscularis layer with a diffuse pattern of hyperechoic speckles and striations

So what has caused this lesion? Severe gastritis caused by dietary indiscretion, FB that has passed, food allergey, giardia or other internal parasites?

Could this be some sort of congenital hypertrophy and fibrosis? Anything that looks like pyloric stenosis? Would like to get this patient back and rescan in a week or two. Any thoughts?

– the fundus and the body of the stomach was much less drastically thickened however some hypechoic speckles noted in the muscularis layer there as well