Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound: A Diagnostic Atlas and Text

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Fig. 3-249 Doppler sonogram and
longitudinal sonograms of the
uterus of a 3-year-old female
German Shepherd dog. The examination
was part of a routine pregnancy
check 50 days postbreeding.
The dog was clinically normal. The
Doppler examination identifies the
heart and establishes the heart rate.
In the longitudinal sonograms the
head of the fetus can be identified.
Diagnosis: Normal pregnancy.
A
B
Fig. 3-250 Longitudinal (A, C, and
D) and transverse sonograms of the
uterus of a 3-year-old German
Shepherd dog 57 days postbreeding.
The dog was clinically normal. The
heart, lung, liver, and stomach can be
identified. Note that the lung is
hyperechoic relative to the liver.
Shadowing is evident due to calcification
of the ribs (A). Diagnosis:
Normal pregnancy.
C
D
triangular fat density usually is observed between the bladder neck and the cranial-most
aspect of the prostate and this helps to identify these two structures. Extension of the
prostate cranial to the pelvic brim may indicate enlargement (Fig. 3-251), but it also
may be the normal migration of the gland out into the caudal abdominal cavity in sexual
senescence. The presence of the prostate gland in the caudal abdomen is not an