13-year-old male castrated American Shorthair
2018 Image Interpretation - Case 2
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- Presented with 1 day of lethargy and vomiting
- Abdomen painful on palpation, urinary bladder is small and not easily expressed
- There is poor serosal detail in the mid-abdomen
- There is an increased soft-tissue opacity in the inguinal regions
- A urinary catheter is seen advanced into the urinary bladder
- There are small mineral opacities superimposed falciform fat, which overall has an increased opacity
- There are also several other small mineral opacities within the abdomen
- The caudal pulmonary parenchyma has a bronchial pattern
- Ruptured urinary bladder
- Patient went to surgery to have the bladder repaired and was discharged a few days later