Everything turned out well again... ?
Man, that was something! At the beginning of May, an 11-year-old mixed-breed dog was brought to us with fever and pain. It quickly became clear – there was something in her abdomen. Under ultrasound guidance, this increased size in the posterior abdominal region was punctured, and the pathologist confirmed the suspicion that it was a highly purulent, inflamed lymph node. Fast action was necessary, as there was a constant risk that the pus could leak into the abdominal cavity. This could have been life-threatening. ? The little darling underwent prompt surgery. And sure enough, we saw this lump immediately after opening the abdominal cavity. After we had loosened the adhesions to the surrounding tissue, we confirmed what we had suspected: the posterior colon was involved. Ultimately, a large section of colon had to be removed, which is not technically easy and generally associated with a higher risk of impaired wound healing. Afterward, we had to keep our fingers crossed for a few days, and after a four-day hospital stay, our patient was able to be discharged. She recovered quickly under close monitoring and medication, as well as the loving care of her two-legged friends. Just in time for the stitches to be removed, the relieving news from the pathologist arrived: it was really "just" an infection and not a tumor – but an unusually severe and rare occurrence in which the inflammation had broken through the intestinal wall. That could have ended badly...