EMPHYSEMATOUS HEPATIC ABSCESS ASSOCIATED WITH TRAUMA, NECROTIC HEPATIC NODULAR HYPERPLASIA AND ADENOMA IN A DOG: A CASE HISTORY REPORT

Abstract

A 13‐year‐old male Setter‐Springer crossbred dog was presented with signs of acute peritonitis three days after blunt abdominal trauma. In abdominal radiographs, a bubbly accumulation of gas in the central and cranioventral parts of the liver silhouette and mild peritoneal effusion were seen. At laparatomy, firm, necrotic, nodular hepatic masses containing gas were found to be ruptured. The histologic diagnoses were hepatic adenoma with hepatic necrosis and nodular hepatic hyperplasia. The pathogenesis of hepatic abscessation and the radiographic differential diagnosis of extraluminal abdominal gas are discussed.