Today’s case is an 8-year-old female spayed Golden Retriever, PU/PD, wobbling, lethargy, and vomiting. What is your interpretation?
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Isn’t it a little bit of stretch to make such differentials only judging by increased opacity of the kidneys? Or were there any other lab tests for the diagnosis?
Radiology is the practice of generating differential diagnoses from radiographic findings, and interpreting them in a clinical context. The laboratory results may or may not be available at the time of imaging, but are used to refine the differentials. In this case one would expect acute renal failure on lab work. Increased opacity of the kidneys only has a limited number of differential diagnoses of which ethylene glycol toxicity is the main source.