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Sublumbar grass awns in two cats: ultrasonographic features and ultrasound-guided retrieval

CASE SERIES SUMMARY: Two adult cats were evaluated because of recurrent abscesses of the right lateral thoracoabdominal wall. The abscesses receded with antibiotics but relapsed shortly after therapy interruption. Ultrasonography identified fluid-filled lesions containing linear, hyperechoic materia...

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Autores principales: Della Santa, Daniele, Mannucci, Tommaso, Busoni, Giulia, Citi, Simonetta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6857115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31763050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055116919885677
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Mannucci, Tommaso
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description CASE SERIES SUMMARY: Two adult cats were evaluated because of recurrent abscesses of the right lateral thoracoabdominal wall. The abscesses receded with antibiotics but relapsed shortly after therapy interruption. Ultrasonography identified fluid-filled lesions containing linear, hyperechoic material with distal acoustic shadowing in the sublumbar region of both cats. Ultrasound-guided retrieval of grass awns was performed in both cases, which resulted in complete clinical resolution. RELEVANCE AND NOVEL INFORMATION: While sublumbar abscesses in dogs are a relatively common disease, their occurrence in cats is much less common. To our knowledge, this is the first report describing the ultrasonographic features of sublumbar abscessation induced by foreign bodies and their ultrasound-guided retrieval in cats.
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spelling pubmed-68571152019-11-22 Sublumbar grass awns in two cats: ultrasonographic features and ultrasound-guided retrieval Della Santa, Daniele Mannucci, Tommaso Busoni, Giulia Citi, Simonetta JFMS Open Rep Case Series CASE SERIES SUMMARY: Two adult cats were evaluated because of recurrent abscesses of the right lateral thoracoabdominal wall. The abscesses receded with antibiotics but relapsed shortly after therapy interruption. Ultrasonography identified fluid-filled lesions containing linear, hyperechoic material with distal acoustic shadowing in the sublumbar region of both cats. Ultrasound-guided retrieval of grass awns was performed in both cases, which resulted in complete clinical resolution. RELEVANCE AND NOVEL INFORMATION: While sublumbar abscesses in dogs are a relatively common disease, their occurrence in cats is much less common. To our knowledge, this is the first report describing the ultrasonographic features of sublumbar abscessation induced by foreign bodies and their ultrasound-guided retrieval in cats. SAGE Publications 2019-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6857115/ /pubmed/31763050 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055116919885677 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title Sublumbar grass awns in two cats: ultrasonographic features and ultrasound-guided retrieval
title_full Sublumbar grass awns in two cats: ultrasonographic features and ultrasound-guided retrieval
title_fullStr Sublumbar grass awns in two cats: ultrasonographic features and ultrasound-guided retrieval
title_full_unstemmed Sublumbar grass awns in two cats: ultrasonographic features and ultrasound-guided retrieval
title_short Sublumbar grass awns in two cats: ultrasonographic features and ultrasound-guided retrieval
title_sort sublumbar grass awns in two cats: ultrasonographic features and ultrasound-guided retrieval
topic Case Series
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6857115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31763050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055116919885677
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