A Rather Odd Bite Presentation.

A bit of a weird case.

A bit of a weird case.

• A 7-year-old MN Beagle was presented for a dog bite from his house mate.  Nothing crazy maul-like, just two puncture wounds. Pretty routine right?
• One problem.  The bite occurred in the left inguinal area of the dog….where a fairly large lipoma had been living happily for several years.  The lipoma was never removed due to the fact that it had never caused discomfort or limited mobility.
• What transpired after the swelling from the trauma to the area was a kind of “udder-like effect”.  🙂

• The owner still wasn’t interested in removing the lipoma at this time, so we decided to place a drain to extract any free fluid and flush the area clean.

The very first cut produced a fountain of mangled fat, reminiscent of those pesky small intestines that are so very difficult to place back in the abdominal cavity after an exploratory.

• On to plan B we went.  🙂 We removed the entire lipoma, flushed the area, placed a penrose drain, flushed some more and voila! A done deal.

• We had seen the bruising and chalked it up to the bite trauma itself; from the pressure.  Also the owners had said that it was just a bite not a full-fledged dog fight with thrashing/shaking, etc.  We had not anticipated the lipoma having been shaken to pieces underneath the skin.

The poor shaken up lipoma.