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                    Figure 25-11  •  A, Whole-body and close-up (B) lateral abdominal projections of a sick hedgehog show an abnormal bowel distribution

                    pattern with most of the identifi able gas-filled bowel situated abnormally in the ventral half of the abdomen, which along with the previous
                    images shown in Figure 25-10 suggest a left-sided, caudal ventral abdominal mass or mass effect—in this instance, an infected uterus.















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