One of the subtleties of interpreting abdominal radiographs is peritoneal detail. It’s a difficult region to evaluate, since it is the potential space between all the organs. It is normally filled with fat, including the falciform fat ventral to the liver, and mesenteric fat in the omentum. When we say peritoneal detail, we mean that [...]
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- Bagetti: The colonic ventral displacement as visualized in this radiography is suggestive of mesenteric, iliac and/or...
- Horrible_student: Erm… and by lungs I meant small bowel. How did that slip by?
- Allison Zwingenberger: Nice list of differentials, including infectious/inflammatory and neoplastic diseases. Now we...
- Horrible_student: Oh! And it’s rare for dogs to get it, but mycobacterium avium=inguinal involvement.
- vet81: I agree with some of You. On the lateral view there is a big soft tissue mass in the middle abdomen that...
