Over the last few days, I've talked about the different appearances of poor peritoneal detail. To recap, detail can be focally or diffusely poor, or mottled. Diffuse causes are usually lack of fat or peritoneal effusion, while local or mottled poor detail can be caused by inflammation, small amount … [Read more...]
Peritoneal Detail II
Yesterday we discussed poor peritoneal detail as an increase in soft tissue opacity and loss of the fat-soft tissue interfaces that show the serosal surfaces of organs. There is another pattern of poor peritoneal detail, that looks like a mottled or streaky increase in soft tissue opacity within the … [Read more...]
Peritoneal Detail
One of the subtleties of interpreting abdominal radiographs is peritoneal detail. It's a difficult region to evaluate, since it is the potential space between all the organs. It is normally filled with fat, including the falciform fat ventral to the liver, and mesenteric fat in the omentum. When we … [Read more...]
Time to study…
January is always the time when radiology residents buckle down to study for the oral board exams. It's a daunting task; there are pages and pages of objectives to cover. Some people have managed to get through them already, and others have read along the way but have not followed the objectives to … [Read more...]
Abdominal Radiographs or Ultrasound?
Today I'll tackle one of the questions I posed in the first post on the blog. If you have an animal with abdominal disease, should you take abdominal radiographs or do an ultrasound? Of course there is no easy answer, but there are two things to keep in mind. First, each modality has its pros and … [Read more...]
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