Question of the Day

This dog has pneumonia of the left cranial lung lobe. There are diffuse alveolar infiltrates within the left cranial lung lobe with air bronchograms.

You should cancel the anesthetized procedure and wake up the patient because she is oxygenating poorly. Recheck radiographs are recommended once she is awake to rule out any component of atelectasis due to recumbency and sedation.

There is an incidental gastric foreign body (rounded metal opacity within the stomach that is in close association with additional irregular metal opacity).
The dog does have spondylosis deformans, which is a very common and incidental radiographic finding in older dogs.
Although these changes are present, they are not the most clinically important findings on these radiographs.

Click here to see normal canine thoracic radiographs.

Radiographic interpretation and images courtesy, Dr A. Zwingenberger and Veterinary Radiology. Normal radiograph links courtesy, Imaging Anatomy, Univ. of Illinois Vet Med.