RADIOGRAPHIC AND ULTRASONOGRAPHIC FINDINGS OF LIVER LOBE TORSION IN A DOG

Abstract

A twelve-year-old neutered male beagle presented for a cranial abdominal mass. The results of physical examination, laboratory tests, radiography, and ultrasonography are presented. A torsion of the quadrate lobe of the liver was diagnosed at surgery and confirmed by histopathology. A brief discussion of liver lobe torsion is presented.