Digital Imaging and Laboratory Services

Diagnostic Imaging

Digital Radiology is available onsite at Towne South Animal Hospital allowing us to have high quality images within seconds.  This allows us to evaluate your pets internal structures, like muscle, bones, and organs of the chest and abdomen that will help give us further insight into what is troubling your pet.

Digital Ultrasound is also onsite at Towne South Animal Hospital. Ultrasound is an excellent, non-invasive tool that is very useful to study the heart and its vessels, as well as the liver, spleen, kidneys, gallbladder, pancreas, adrenal glands, urinary bladder, prostate gland, and other internal organs. It is a non-invasive option in cases where the next step would often be exploratory surgery.

   * Abdominal ultrasound can be extremely useful for detecting changes in the shape, size, tissue density, internal structure, and position of organs. The exam also can identify abdominal masses or tumors, abdominal fluid, bladder, kidney or bladder stones, and abnormal lymph nodes. Frequently, abnormal tissue or fluid is sampled with a needle or biopsy instrument using the guidance of the ultrasound exam. Abdominal ultrasound can also be used to diagnose pregnancy.

   * An ultrasound examination is especially helpful for diseases of the heart. It is called an echocardiogram or an "echo." The heart's wall thicknesses can be measured, and the size of its chambers can be determined. Motion can be detected so that an assessment can be made of the ability of the heart to move blood. The valves can be seen to determine if they are functioning properly.

Laboratory Services

At Towne South Animal Hospital, we can perform complete in-house diagnostic laboratory testing.  Any testing that we cannot perform in-house, we send off to a veterinary-specific reference lab and generally receive the results within a day.