|Articles|August 25, 2010

Today's Daily Dose: Radiography

How to help detect peritoneal disease on radiographs.

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“Use areas of normal fat opacity to compare to the peritoneum. The retroperitoneal space and the falciform fat ventral to the liver may remain unaffected by the peritoneal disease and give you a normal reference.”

-Allison Zwingenberger, DVM, DACVR, DECVDI

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