This is Lola’s back end. She’s been itchy for months. Had Advocate spot-on -no better. No lesions anywhere else; she just spends her evenings chewing the left side of her rump. So, it should be flea allergic dermatitis, maybe anal gland impaction, possibly a pug tail issue…..no? No! Just on auto-pilot, I scraped her scabby … Continue reading
To carry on from the previous post: another case in point although with a less happy outcome. An older Staffie with occasional vomiting. This is a sagittal plane view of the cranial abdomen and diaphragm -again looking from a window just caudal to the xiphisternum. First view in a routine abdominal series. Already that’s looking … Continue reading
So, this lovely 11-month-old French Bulldog presented with a 4 day history of innappetence, vomiting and retching. Her abdominal scan was pretty unremarkable but from a sub-xiphisternal window a pleural effusion was visible. The caudal mediastinum is visible due to the bilateral nature of the pleural effusion. However, on further investigation the left hemithorax was … Continue reading
