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What’s your diagnosis?

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?
	A ventral midline incision could be made to repair both defects
	Both masses should be excised with wide margins, then biopsied
	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