Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Gastrotomy approach for removal of an oesophageal foreign body in a dog.
- Journal:
- Veterinary medicine and science
- Year:
- 2023
- Authors:
- Osaki, Tomohiro et al.
- Affiliation:
- Joint Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine · Japan
- Species:
- dog
Plain-English summary
A 9-year-old male Kaninchen dachshund, weighing about 9.2 pounds, was brought to the clinic because he was occasionally vomiting and having trouble swallowing. X-rays showed that he had a long foreign object stuck in his esophagus. The vets first tried to remove it using a special tool through an endoscope, but it was too big to grab. They then performed a surgery called a gastrotomy, where they made an opening in the stomach to carefully pull out the bone using long forceps while checking with an endoscope. This method worked well for removing the foreign body after the initial attempt failed.
Abstract
A 9-year-old castrated male Kaninchen dachshund dog weighing 4.18 kg was referred to our institution and presented with occasional vomiting and dysphagia. The radiographic examination revealed a long radiopaque foreign body located throughout the thoracic oesophagus. Endoscopic removal was attempted using laparoscopic forceps but was unsuccessful as the foreign body was too large to be grasped. A gastrotomy was therefore performed, and long paean forceps were gently and blindly inserted into the cardia of the stomach. The bone foreign body was grasped with the long paean forceps under fluoroscopy and withdrawn from the oesophagus while checking with an endoscope. A gastrotomy approach using long forceps, endoscopy and fluoroscopy should be considered for removal of oesophageal foreign bodies from patients in which an endoscopic approach has been unsuccessful.
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