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okmissgina@sbcglobal.net
Date: 2003-07-21 02:20:44 UTC
Subject: Trixie's Biopsy results
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
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What does this mean ?
TEST PROCEDURES
BEQ =AB: 0397073
AGE: 3 SEX: F
SPECIES: FERRET
BREED:
RESULTS
LAB =AB: .L1273586 ^
COLLECTED; 07/15/200?; =93
BECEIUED: 07/16/200?; 01:3.;
REPORTED: 07/16/200?; LL:3I)
REREPORTED: 07/17/ZOO:-; LL:5;
REFERENCE RANGE UNITS
CYTOLOGY NO MICROSCOPIC (1 SITE) =
FOUR SLIDES PREPARED FROM ASPIRATION OF A LYMPH NODE
ARE EXAMINED.
MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION NOT REQUESTED.
CYTOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
NEOPLASIA. POSSIBLE ROUND CELL TUMOR; UNREMARKABLE
PERIPHERAL BLOOD AND ADIPOSE TISSUE =
COMMENTS;
THE ASPIRATES ARE OF VARIABLE CELLULABITV. THREE
SLIDES CONTAIN ONLY ABUNDANT PERIPHERAL BLOOD AND A
VARIABLE AMOUNT OF EXTRACELLULAR FREE LIPID. =
PRESENT IN ONE PREPARATION ARE MODERATE NUMBERS OF
NEOPLASTIC CELLS. THESE CELLS ABE ROUND TO SPINDLE
SHAPED AND INDIVIDUALLY ARRANGED. TOE=BB HAUE A VARIABLE
AHOUNT OF BASOPHILIC CYTOPLASB WHICH OCCASIONALLY
FORMS WISPY TAILS. THESE CELLS DISPLAY EVIDENCE OF
ATYPIA INCLUDING ANISOKARVOSIS, MULTINUCLEATION AND A
VARIABLE NUCLEAR:C=BBTOPLASMIC RATIO. THESE CELLS
DISPLAY CRITERIA OF BOTH A ROUND CELL AND NESENCHYMAL
CELL POPULATION. THE CYTOPLASMA OCCASIONALLY CONTAINS
SMALL NUMBERS OF FAINT, PURPLE GRANULES WHICH RAISES
THE CONCERN FOB A POORLY DIFFERENTIATED MAST CELL
TUMOR. OTHER DIFFERENTIALS WOULD INCLUDE AN ANAPLASTIC
ROUND CELL TUMOR OR SARCOMA.
THE MARKED PLEOMORPHISM OBSERVED. IN THIS POPULATION
PRECLUDES A MORE DEFINITIVE DIAGNOSIS. NO LYMPHOID
TISSUE IS OBSERVED IN ANY OF THE ASPIRATES. THIS IS
BELIEVED TO BE A MALIGNANT NEOPLASM HOWEVER,
HISTOPATHOLOGY IS NECESSARY TO FURTHER DEFINE IT.
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