Surgical Treatment of a Chronic Brain Abscess and Growing Skull Fracture in a Dog

Figure 3

Preoperative, precontrast computed tomography (CT) images of the head. (a) Image in a soft tissue window at the level of mandibular rami. There is midline shift toward the left caused by a large hypodensity in the right cerebrum (asterisks), a calvarial defect, and a mineral fragment within the brain parenchyma. (b) Three-dimensional CT reconstruction of the skull in a bone window. Note the smoothly scalloped edges of the elevated bone flap (arrow) and calvarial defect as well as the size discrepancy between the two.

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