Today’s case is a 6 year old Golden Retriever with thrombocytopenia of unknown origin.
6 year old Golden Retriever
Teaching and learning about veterinary diagnostic imaging.
Teaching and learning about veterinary diagnostic imaging.
Today’s case is a 6 year old Golden Retriever with thrombocytopenia of unknown origin.
Hi,
I would call this a hazy reticular interstitial pattern. Can you please help me to see the ‘patchy’ alveolar component?
This pattern is interstitial, but there are some more dense areas of soft tissue opacity cranial and caudal to the heart on the laterals, and in the caudal lung lobes on the d/v projection. There is a lobar sign on the lateral overlying the cardiac silhouette, which I usually call alveolar pattern. There are a few airways seen in these areas as well, another sign of alveolar disease. Remember that there is often a continuum of interstitial to alveolar disease. Fluid collects in the alveolar walls, creating interstitial pattern, and can eventually spill into the alveoli. We catch a moment in time on the radiograph so often see a mixed pattern in these types of cases.
Isn’t there sternal linfadenopathy?