
07/10/2025
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Our case update this week is on patient 25-1076 an adult female spiny softshell turtle. She presented to the clinic after being found by our county animal control with a bad wound on her neck and an injured eye. After cleaning out the wound, we ended up performing radiographs (x-rays!) and found out that she had also swallowed a fish hook. From there she got to take a trip to our Internal Medicine department to get an upper gastrointestinal tract endoscopy procedure so that we could see where and how embedded the hook was. After finding it with this procedure the hook was able to be surgically removed. Lastly, her injured eye was removed as it was no longer visual and the injury to it was causing her pain. Despite only having one eye, she will still be able to be released once her surgical sites and neck wounds heal!