Dr. Lera Clone examines Grumpy, a five-year-old bulldog with severe neck and facial swelling. A fine-needle aspirate ruled out a ruptured salivary gland, but ultrasound found a neck mass. Surgery to remove it should relieve the pressure causing the swelling.
Hey guys, My name is Dr. Lara here at Arian Lakes Animal Hospital. Today I'm here with Grumpy. Grumpy is a five year old male neutered English bulldog. And so Grumpy came in because he was having some swelling underneath his neck. And so a lot of times when you have swelling underneath the neck, one of the things, one of the top rule outs or top things that we think it may be maybe what's called a sialocele or a ruptured salivary gland and so, or a damaged salivary gland. And so what can happen sometimes is that saliva will start oozing into the tissue around the neck and it will cause this fluid like pocket that will go ahead and cause some different kinds of, you know, distribution of that fluid either on the left side of the neck, the right side of the neck, or in the middle. A lot of the times your veterinarian should be able to go ahead and diagnose that by going ahead and collecting some of that fluid via what's called a fine needle aspirate. That's where they stick a needle in it, suck it out. And that fluid will actually have a very, very stringy like appearance. It's very thick, just like saliva. And so if they're not sure, they will typically send it off to the lab, have the lab go ahead and interpret it and they will be able to go ahead and give you a, give the vet a diagnosis of what exactly it is. In Grumpy's case, when we sent out that sample, they weren't able to give us an actual diagnosis because it wasn't a ruptured salivary gland. So we decided to go ahead and do an ultrasound on his neck to see if we could get a better idea of what was going on. And we did find a growth in his neck. We don't know what it is. We're going to be going into surgery with him shortly and we will be going ahead and removing that mass. Now if you guys notice, he's got a lot of swelling on his face. And the reason that he's got that swelling is because we anticipate that this mass is putting pressure on what we call the lymphatics and that's causing a backup. And so that's why you see all this really pronounced swelling in his face. I anticipate that once we go ahead and remove that mass, the hope is that that pressure will be removed from the lymphatics and then all that stuff will, the drain will start draining and going back to where it should go throughout the body. So once we figure out what's going on, we'll give you guys an update and let you know. If you guys have any questions about this particular topic, leave it in the comment section. Otherwise, if you guys found this video helpful, give us a thumbs up. Subscribe and share. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
