This week’s case is a 7-year-old male neutered Giant Schnauzer with abdominal discomfort and vomiting after being groomed. This case is a common presentation in the emergency room. What is your interpretation?
7 year old Giant Schnauzer
Teaching and learning about veterinary diagnostic imaging.
Good morning!
I ‘ve’ been following this page for a long time and, I have to say I had learned a lot. I am just a general practitioner. Thank you for sharing. Now, about this case. I do not see the megaesophagus. Can you please, show how I can see it in these images.
Thank,
Alfonso
Hola Alonso. .Some times it is difficult to see megaesophagus because the density of luminal air of the esophagus and the pulmonary air overlap.
You must to find two parallel subtle linear density. .one dorsal, one ventral.
The subtle dorsal radiopaque ‘line’ cross the thoracic aorta on oblique sense, ventral to 6th and 7th thoracic vertebra.
The second subtle ventral radiopaque ‘line’ cross traquea at thoracic inlet on oblique sense, and then runs parallel just little ventrally to the same traqueal tube. Pass ventrally to the carina and continuos caudaly to diafragm.