Welcome to the Learning Area. In this section we will be sharing, on a weekly basis, new and interesting cases in the various disciplines of Small Animal Diagnostic Imaging. We hope you find them interesting and engaging. You can also leave comments and enquiries if any doubts arise in relation to a specific case.
Esophageal mass in a dog
12-year-old male Maltese with respiratory distress that worsened within hours. Thoracic CT was performed.
Multiple cervical and thoracic vertebral fractures in a dog
5-year-old male crossbreed hit by a car with tetraplegia and cervical pain. A cervico-thoracic spine CT was performed.
Polyarthritis and lobar emphysema in a young dog
6-months-old male spanish hound. Three weeks ago, he presented with tachypnoea, fever, and apathy; he was diagnosed with bronchopneumonia. A blood culture was performed and Pasteurella canis was isolated. A few days ago, he started with painful joints and thoracolumbar spine.
A CT scan of fore limbs, pelvic limbs, thoracolumbar spine and thorax was performed.
Discospondylitis caused by migrating foreign body
2-year-old female, crossbreed dog. She has been avoiding any kind of activity for 4-5 weeks. Then she started with lameness of the right pelvic limb.
Feline asthma and diaphragmatic hernia in a cat
Six-year-old male DSH with a 1-month history of tachypnea. A thoracic and abdominal CT was performed.
Sublumbar mass
8-years-old female boxer with pelvic limbs weakness and leishmaniosis. In the radiographic study of the lumbar spine, a soft tissue lesion with mineralizations at the ventral aspect of the vertebral bodies of L7-S1 was seen.
An abdominal CT was performed.
Soft palate mass
12-year-old male neutered Labrador Retriever. Came to the emergency room with inspiratory distress and mixed dyspnea. Physical examination revealed laryngeal stertors.
A head CT scan was performed.
Extra-axial mass in the fourth ventricle
8-year-old female Jack russel terrier with cervical pain and ataxia.
An MRI of the head was performed.
Pancreatic mass, with invasion of the gastroduodenal vein and pulmonary metastasis
11-years-old, female, crossbreed dog with hypoglycemia since she was 9 years old. Seizures in the last 24 hours.
A thoracic and abdominal angiography CT-scan was performed.
Hydroureter and hydronephrosis in a dog
A 1-year-old, female, spayed crossbreed dog was presented with fever and abdominal pain. In the abdominal ultrasound, pelvic and ureteral distention were seen.
An abdominal CT was performed.
Large urinary mass
10-year-old female crossbreed. The patient presents a large abdominal mass of unknown origin. On ultrasound the left kidney is not visible.
An abdominal CT scan was performed.
Tracheal mass
17-year-old female domestic short hair. Chronic cough since she was 8 years old. Currently, inspiratory and expiratory dyspnoea.
A thoracic CT scan was performed.
