Subcutaneous herniation of fetuses after blunt force trauma in a cat

CASE SUMMARY: A stray female domestic shorthair cat was presented to the emergency service after being hit by a car. The patient was recumbent and vocalizing, with a small wound over the right lateral thorax, and two palpably firm swellings in the right cervical and thoracic soft tissues. The patien...

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Autores principales: Collins-Webb, Alexandra G, Hanna, Ashley L, Mehrkens, Lea R, VanderHart, Daniel J
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7440730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32884830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055116920946575
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description CASE SUMMARY: A stray female domestic shorthair cat was presented to the emergency service after being hit by a car. The patient was recumbent and vocalizing, with a small wound over the right lateral thorax, and two palpably firm swellings in the right cervical and thoracic soft tissues. The patient was sedated and humanely euthanized to prevent further pain and suffering. Post-mortem whole-body radiographs and subsequent necropsy revealed abdominal wall rupture with herniation of two near-term fetuses within the subcutaneous tissues along the right ventrolateral thoracic wall and neck. Within the abdomen, the right uterine horn was ruptured and a third extra-luminal fetus was identified. The left uterine horn remained intact, containing a fourth fetus. RELEVANCE AND NOVEL INFORMATION: Rupture of the abdominal wall or diaphragm are well-known potential complications of blunt force trauma, such as motor vehicle accidents. While traumatic uterine rupture and diaphragmatic herniation of the gravid uterus have both been reported in the veterinary literature, abdominal wall rupture with subcutaneous fetal herniation is highly uncommon.
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spelling pubmed-74407302020-09-02 Subcutaneous herniation of fetuses after blunt force trauma in a cat Collins-Webb, Alexandra G Hanna, Ashley L Mehrkens, Lea R VanderHart, Daniel J JFMS Open Rep Case Report CASE SUMMARY: A stray female domestic shorthair cat was presented to the emergency service after being hit by a car. The patient was recumbent and vocalizing, with a small wound over the right lateral thorax, and two palpably firm swellings in the right cervical and thoracic soft tissues. The patient was sedated and humanely euthanized to prevent further pain and suffering. Post-mortem whole-body radiographs and subsequent necropsy revealed abdominal wall rupture with herniation of two near-term fetuses within the subcutaneous tissues along the right ventrolateral thoracic wall and neck. Within the abdomen, the right uterine horn was ruptured and a third extra-luminal fetus was identified. The left uterine horn remained intact, containing a fourth fetus. RELEVANCE AND NOVEL INFORMATION: Rupture of the abdominal wall or diaphragm are well-known potential complications of blunt force trauma, such as motor vehicle accidents. While traumatic uterine rupture and diaphragmatic herniation of the gravid uterus have both been reported in the veterinary literature, abdominal wall rupture with subcutaneous fetal herniation is highly uncommon. SAGE Publications 2020-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7440730/ /pubmed/32884830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055116920946575 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://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_full Subcutaneous herniation of fetuses after blunt force trauma in a cat
title_fullStr Subcutaneous herniation of fetuses after blunt force trauma in a cat
title_full_unstemmed Subcutaneous herniation of fetuses after blunt force trauma in a cat
title_short Subcutaneous herniation of fetuses after blunt force trauma in a cat
title_sort subcutaneous herniation of fetuses after blunt force trauma in a cat
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7440730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32884830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055116920946575
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