ULTRASOUND SERVICES

We offer a variety of ultrasound procedures including abdominal, thoracic, musculoskeletal and cervical ultrasounds.  We also provide fine needle aspirates and Tru-cut biopsies along with therapeutic and diagnostic fluid aspirates, including thoracocentesis, abdominocentesis and pericardial drainage.

ABDOMINAL ULTRASOUND

Abdominal sonography is an invaluable tool for diagnosing a variety of disease processes that occur in our veterinary patients.  With our abdominal ultrasounds, an entire evaluation of the abdomen is performed to ensure that we do not overlook occult abnormalities or concurrent disease.  Focal studies are not routinely performed.

THORACIC ULTRASOUND

Thoracic sonography can be useful beyond the expected echocardiogram.  It can be helpful in evaluation of cranial mediastinal lesions, pulmonary or heart-based masses, as well as screening for right atrial/auricular masses (i.e. in the case of hemangiosarcoma).

MUSCULOSKELETAL ULTRASOUND

Musculoskeletal ultrasound can be useful in looking at specific soft tissue injuries, such as those that affect the shoulder, the Achilles tendon, as well as muscles of the pelvis (iliopsoas muscle and its tendinous insertion).

Please note that we do not perform Echocardiograms