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SONOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF INTRAABDOMINAL ABSCESSATION AND LYMPHADENOPATHY ATTRIBUTABLE TO RHODOCOCCUS EQUI INFECTIONS IN FOALS
Author(s) -
REUSS SARAH M.,
CHAFFIN M. KEITH,
SCHMITZ DAVID G.,
NORMAN TRACY E.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
veterinary radiology and ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.541
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1740-8261
pISSN - 1058-8183
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-8261.2011.01804.x
Subject(s) - medicine , echogenicity , rhodococcus equi , abscess , abdomen , lymph , gastrointestinal tract , pathology , radiology , ultrasonography , surgery , biochemistry , chemistry , virulence , gene
The sonographic characteristics of intraabdominal abscesses in 11 foals and intraabdominal lymphadenitis in five foals with Rhodococcus equi infections are presented. Intraabdominal abscesses were usually present in the ventral abdomen adjacent to the ventral body wall, well‐marginated, and contained a mixed or complex echo pattern. Lymphadenitis appeared as singular or multiple clusters of lymph nodes of mixed echogenicity adjacent to any portion of the gastrointestinal tract or body wall. Sonographic findings were supported by necropsy examinations, but sonographic measurements consistently underestimated the size of abscess.