|Articles|June 9, 2011

Today's Daily Dose: Flank abscess

Differential diagnoses for a dog with a flank wound.

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“A flank abscess in animals should evoke high clinical suspicion of a retroperitoneal or dorsal abdominal musculature nidus as a source of the cutaneous fistula or flank swelling.”

-Mathieu M. Glassman, VMD, and Daniel M. Smeak, DVM, DACVS

From A dog with a nonhealing flank wound

 

 

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