1Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology
2Dean, College of Veterinary Sciences
3Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology
4Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, E&J
5Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary and A.H. Extension
6Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathology
Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana (Punjab)
*Corresponding author: E-mail: skmahajan73@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 18 December, 2012.
The study was conducted on 21 clinical cases of dogs for various abdominal disorders, which included ultrasound guided biopsy (USGB) in 12 cases of liver and 9 cases of kidneys. The accuracy of the technique in liver was 91.66%. The accuracy of the technique was 88.88% in cases of kidneys. It was concluded that USGS with biopsy gun using free hand technique was an easy, safe and accurate technique for obtaining sufficient and good quality tissue for histopathological diagnosis in cases of hepatic and renal affections in dogs.
Biopsy, Dogs, Kidneys, Liver, Ultrasound
