Ultrasound morphology of cecal appendix in pet rabbits.

Purpose: Cecal appendix is the terminal part of cecum and is characteristic of rabbit, among domestic animals. The purpose of this work is to evaluate its morphology upon ultrasound.

Methods: A prospective study was planned for the duration of approximately 1 year.

Ultrasonographic measurement of the pancreas and pancreatic duct in clinically normal dogs.

Objective: To obtain ultrasonographic reference values for the thickness of the pancreas and the diameter of the pancreatic duct in clinically normal dogs.

Animals: 242 adult dogs with no clinical signs of gastrointestinal tract disease.

Procedures: The maximum pancreatic thickness and the diameter of the pancreatic duct were recorded ultrasonographically at the level of the left lobe, body, and right lobe of the pancreas.

Ventricular septal defect in a ferret (Mustela putorius furo).

A four-year-old, castrated male ferret (Mustela putorius furo) was evaluated because of a one-year history of sporadic cough. On physical examination a grade 5 of 6 holosystolic murmur was audible over the right apex of the heart. Radiographic findings included the presence of air bronchograms in apical lobes accompanied by pulmonary venous congestion.