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This 10-year-old intact female beagle presented with bilateral abdominal swelling

October 26, 2020

By Phil Zeltzman, DVM, DACVS, CVJ, Fear Free Certified

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A 10-year-old intact female beagle with bilateral abdominal swelling. (The head is to the right, while the knees are seen at the edge of the towel on the left.)

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Question 1: What is your diagnosis?
	A fine-needle aspirate of the masses is required to answer
	I can’t tell. A CT scan is recommended
	This dog mostly likely has bilateral inguinal hernias

Question 2: What would be the wrong treatment?
	Both masses should be excised with wide margins, then biopsied
	A ventral midline incision could be made to repair both defects
	An incision could be made over each hernia to repair the defect

Question 3: Which additional procedure is important to perform?
	The dog should be spayed since a hereditary basis is suspected
	A dental cleaning should be done under the same anesthesia
	A prophylactic gastropexy should be performed

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