Compared with the total hospital population there was an increased prevalence of grass awn problems i.
Grass awn migration in dogs.
A retrospective study of 140 cases of grass awn migration in dogs seen since 2001 till 2002 year period was conducted.
A 10 mhz linear transducer was used.
The aim of this study was to describe the ultrasonographic features of grass awns in soft tissue.
Grass awn migration in dogs and cats.
This is where the name mean seeds came from.
A retrospective study of 182 cases of grass awn migration in dogs and cats seen during a 1 year period was performed.
Hordeum murinum has been found as most troublesome species in the area of.
A retrospective study of 182 cases pubmed.
The 182 cases comprised 61 of all foreign body related cases during that year.
When it starts into a dog s body it just keeps traveling and then every time the dog moves in some way it gets the seed moving forward and this is the key problem with some of these seeds.
If swallowed grass awns may stick to the back of the throat near the tonsils and cause inflammation and swelling.
Ultrasound images from 25 dogs 27 awns were collected and compared with the results from water bath studies using wild oat seeds avena spp collected in the field wild oat seeds were the most common grass awn found in soft tissue of dogs.