{"id":720,"date":"2016-11-06T00:17:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T04:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drphilzeltzman.com\/blog\/?p=720"},"modified":"2022-07-08T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T19:31:14","slug":"german-shepherd-needs-surgery-catch-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drphilzeltzman.com\/blog\/german-shepherd-needs-surgery-catch-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"German Shepherd needs surgery to catch his breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-721 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drphilzeltzman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Yuengling-face-1500x2000.jpg\" alt=\"yuengling-face\" width=\"142\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drphilzeltzman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Yuengling-face-1500x2000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.drphilzeltzman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Yuengling-face-825x1100.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.drphilzeltzman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Yuengling-face-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/>Yuengling, a 7-year-old German Shepherd, had swelling along the left side of his tongue. The mass was so large that\u00a0Yuengling was having difficulty breathing.<\/p>\n<p>This is called a ranula, or a mucocele. It&#8217;s a large pocket of saliva often formed after trauma to a salivary gland. I performed surgery at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baerc.com\/\">Berks Animal Emergency &amp; Referral Center<\/a> and cut the pocket open and sutured the edges together.<\/p>\n<p>But before I could close the incision, the thick, ropy saliva needed to be aspirated. You can see the mass and part of the surgery in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U2CIxP-uOsw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuengling, a 7-year-old German Shepherd, had swelling along the left side of his tongue. The mass was so large that\u00a0Yuengling was having difficulty breathing. This is called a ranula, or a mucocele. It&#8217;s a large pocket of saliva often formed after trauma to a salivary gland. I performed surgery at Berks Animal Emergency &amp; Referral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[94,93,29,9,10],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surgery-stories","tag-dog-surgery","tag-mucocele","tag-ranula","tag-veterinary-medicine","tag-veterinary-surgery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>German Shepherd needs surgery to catch his breath | Dr Phil Zeltzman\u2019s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yuengling, a 7-year-old German Shepherd, had swelling along the left side of his tongue. 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