Presenting problem: Shelled Egg Palpable

Detecting a shelled egg on physical examination is not necessarily a problem—birds lay eggs everyday! However palpation of a shelled egg is an important clinical finding that can be associated with dystocia. The egg is shelled in a distal part of the oviduct called the uterus or shell gland. Therefore a shelled egg would normally be palpable in either the . . .


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Pollock C. Presenting problem: Shelled egg palpable. May 25, 2012. LafeberVet Web site. Available at https://lafeber.com/vet/presenting-problem-shelled-egg-palpable/