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Ultrasound - Pathology
Ultrasounds are routinely performed in live stranded, rehabilitation and captive-maintained cetaceans and pinnipeds as part of their health assessment

Renal gas

Renal gas

Pulmonary lesion - granuloma

Renal gas
Renal gas and calculi in dolphins
Renal calculi in sea lions
Hepatic lipidosis
Granulomatous pneumonia
Renal gas has recently been described without apparent clinical significance in mass-stranded dolphins.
Urinary calculi are seen with some frequency among captive dolphins and sporadically in free -ranging pinnipeds.
Hepatic lipidosis, characterized by a hyperechogenic liver that is hyperattenuating, is shown and was diagnosed in a stranded and malnourished pilot whale.
Ultrasound can be very useful for evaluating the pleural space and peripheral lung. Lung lesions extending to the visceral pleura can often be identified.