Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Dog case (with gruesome photos)

This is an old Kelpie whose owner brought the poor mutt in yesterday "with a lump" obviously there are two guess what the rest of the pictures show!!!



As you might have guessed there were some fairly major blood vessels in there!!! It took me a while to get them all ligated



was left with a fairly large defect. I was 2 1/2 hours on this animal


Multiple layers of closure and walking sutures meant that I was able to close the wound.Its not the prettiest and I am worried about tension on the suture line, of course there is probably spread in other locations and there is no way all the cells were removed and, and and.......... that is for another day. I might persuade the owner to X-ray the chest and biopsy the lymph nodes when we get the histology back!!


and what you need to see when you have finished is a cup of coffee walking through the door in the hand of the surgery nurse.


2 comments:

Ginger Ninja said...

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Ginger Ninja said...

This came back as a malignant melanoma for those of you interested