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9 year old turtle

June 27, 2019 By Allison Zwingenberger

How about some exotic imaging today? Here’s a case of a 9-year-old female red eared slider turtle with a 1-week history of straining.

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Findings

On whole body images, there are three oval, mineralized eggs visible in the coelom. One eggs is positioned within the pelvic canal, and the other two are in the left and right cranial portion of the coelom. The remainder of the coelom and skeletal structures appear normal.
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Diagnosis

  • Egg binding

Ovocentesis was performed with a needle and syringe transclocallay, and the egg was removed. The second egg required the same procedure a week later.

Filed Under: Abdomen, Case of the Day, Exotic, Radiographs, Thorax

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