Feline Abdomen — lateral
DX · digital X-ray
DX · Feline · Abdomen · lateral✓ community reference
01 /What's visible
Feline abdominal radiograph in right-lateral recumbency. Smaller frame than canine; renal silhouettes are typically more conspicuous due to retroperitoneal fat.
02 / Landmarks
- Liver silhouette
- Gastric gas
- Small intestinal loops
- Colon
- Renal silhouettes (often visible)
- Urinary bladder
03 /Source & license
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Credibility
- community
- Attribution
- Anja (2025). Radio abdominale, latéro-latérale droite, chat normal. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Source
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radio_abdominale_chat_-_LL_D_-_normale.jpg ↗
04 / Next — apply to a case
Clinical case library — Abdomenread abnormal next
Now that you have a baseline for normal abdomen, open a case from the library to spot what's different.
05 / Other abdomen views
DX · lateral
✓ CUVET
Canine Abdomen
Canine lateral abdomen from the CUVET teaching set. Vertebral column dorsally, gas-filled bowel loops + serosal silhouettes ventrally, pelvic inlet caudally. The reference layout for evaluating gas pattern, organ silhouette, and serosal detail.
DX · VD
✓ CUVET
Canine Abdomen
Canine ventrodorsal abdomen from the CUVET teaching set. Vertebrae down the midline, symmetric kidneys flanking, intestinal gas patterns, and sacroiliac + femoral heads at the pelvic inlet. Pair with the lateral view for two-plane abdominal evaluation.