Veterinary Medicine - August 2007 - (Page 522) Linear foreign bodies O P E E R - R E V I E W E D 2 2. A right lateral abdominal compression radiograph of the cat in this report showing the plicated small intestine. 3B 3A 3A & 3B. Right lateral and ventrodorsal barium contrast abdominal radiographs showing a linear foreign body outline throughout the intestine in a cat from a different case. fluid therapy, antibiotics, and analgesics for three days and was discharged with instructions for the owner to feed a bland diet. DISCUSSION Practitioners must know the indications for and advantages and disadvantages of different imaging techniques as well as be able to identify the typical abnormalities consistent with linear foreign bodies that are seen with these techniques. Survey abdominal radiography Survey abdominal radiography is always recommended in vomiting pa- tients. In our hospital, ventrodorsal and right lateral views are standard. The advantages of abdominal radiography are that it is noninvasive, provides immediate results, and is relatively inexpensive and readily available. The disadvantages include radiation exposure and summation or superimposition of soft tissues over the stomach and intestines.3 On survey radiographs, intestinal linear foreign bodies can cause abnormal shape, contour, and luminal content pattern.2,4 They can also produce an accordion-like pleating, shortening, or gathering of the small intestine because of peristalsis.1-6 Because the antimesenteric border of the intestine is longer than the mesenteric border, gas commonly becomes trapped in pockets formed by the pleats, resulting in an abnormal pattern of unconnected round, tapered, and short tubular gas shapes. Repositioning the patient in the opposite lateral recumbency causes redistribution of intestinal gas, which serves as negative contrast media for this second lateral view. This negative contrast can be helpful in localizing the foreign body.7-9 That is particularly true in the case of pyloric foreign bodies because in right lateral recumbency, gas accumulates in the fundus, but in left lat- 522 August 2007 VETERINARY MEDICINE
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Veterinary Medicine - August 2007 Contents A Veterinary Medicine Interview Veterinary Voices Idea Exchange Diagnosis and Treatment of Solar Dermatitis in Dogs Diagnostic Imaging for Linear Foreign Bodies in Cats Overcoming the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges of Canine Immune-Mediated Thrombocytopenia Ophthalmic drugs: What’s new? 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