Fig. 3

Ultrasonographic images (a, b) and intraoperative photograph (c) of a 3–year-old German Shorthaired Pointer with a grass awn in the left iliopsoas muscle. a Transabdominal ultrasonographic image of a spindle-shaped hyperechoic foreign body consistent with a grass awn (arrow). b Intraoperative ultrasonographic image of the same awn shown in panel A (arrow). c Photograph of the grass awn after the removal