
21/05/2025
✳️. Successful scanning tip: ✅
Use other modalities to diagnose and manage your cases✅✅
✳️ I know I sound like a broken record here but radiographs are not the enemy!! 💀
✳️ This patient had a palpable abdominal mass and radiographs confirm this large mass in the caudo-dorsal abdomen causing ventral deviation of the colon.
✳️ You can also see there is something very odd in the cranial portion of these radiographs
- look at the chest area. What is that??! 😳😳😳
✳️ Lateral thoracic radiograph shows a diffuse nodular pattern.
✳️ With all of this information obtained via radiographs 🩻 we were able to provide additional information for the owner.
➡️ After a long discussion with the owner, specifically, costs and quality of life discussions, ultrasound was declined and the patient moved to palliative management.
✳️✳️Lesson: Successfuly scanning technique?
Answer: No matter how badly we want to ultrasound as many patients as we can, sometimes, the best thing for the patient and the owner is knowing when we don’t need to.
What do you think ❓❓