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11 year old mixed breed dog

December 3, 2015 By Allison Zwingenberger

Today’s case is an 11-year-old male mixed breed dog with respiratory distress. We don’t see skull radiographs very often. Can you spot the abnormalities?

R LAT Skull
DV Skull

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Findings

There is increased soft tissue opacity filling the nasal cavity and frontal sinuses. There is turbinate destruction visible on the ventrodorsal projection. There is lysis of the right frontal bone in the region of the orbit. Smooth periosteal proliferation is visible on the frontal bone on the lateral projection.

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Differential Diagnosis

Aggressive nasal mass, most likely neoplastic.

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Diagnosis

sal mass. Further workup was not performed.

Filed Under: Canine, Case of the Day, Musculoskeletal, Radiographs

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