hemopoitin path Flashcards
what are the lesions of Equine CID
- thymus is small and obscured by mediastinal fat.
- Tonsils, lymph nodes, and Peyer’s patches cannot be identified at necropsy
microscopic lesions of equine CID
- thymic tissue consists of small dysplastic lobules with a variable number of Hassall’s corpuscles
name of the thymic tumer of lymphoid origin
thymic lymphoma
name the thymic neoplasia of epithelial origin
thymoma
which thymic tumer is associated with myasthenia gravis (which may be accompanied by megaesophagus) and immune mediated polymyositis in dogs
thymoma
what are the lesions of Thymic hemorrhage and hematomas
- hemorrhage or hematomas confined to the thymus or extend into the mediastinum
- with anticoagulant rodenticide poisoning, hemorrhages may also be at other sites (pericardial sac, mesentery, liver, peritoneum)
causes of spleen rupture
- HBC
- rupture of hemangio(sarco)ma, lymphosarcoma
- splenomegaly predisposes (“pathologic rupture”) especially at sites of hematomas and infarct
sequela of spleen rupture
- death from exsanguination.
- healing by scarring, may have numerous fragments of spleen throughout the abdominal cavity and mesentery (splenosis or “splattered spleen syndrome”)
lesions of torsion in pigs and dogs
- may get strangulation of one pole in the pig
- may develop with gastric torsion in the dog
granular, whitish to yellow, firm, dry, encrustations on the capsule (especially along the margins) in the spleen are lesions for….
siderofibrosis/sidero-calcific plaques of capsule (Gamna-Gandy bodies) in aged dogs
what are the lesions of amylodoisis
- sago spleen
- prominent white pulp (not always detected grossly);
- histologically, homogeneous deposits around and within lymphoid follicles, positive amyloid stains
what are the lesions of hemosiderosis
- brown to brownish-black (if severe)
- golden brown granules in macrophages (positive by Fe stain)
what are the causes of hemosiderosis
- Breakdown of erythrocytes (physiologic)
- Reduced rate of erythropoiesis (less demand for iron), e.g., anemia of chronic disease
- hemolytic anemia (excessive erythrocytic destruction and increased stores of iron)
- chronic heart failure
- iron dextran injection in pigs
- hemorrhage (trauma)
- hematomas, infarcts
what are the lesions of acute passive congestion of spleen
swollen with blood, reddish-black to purple
what causes acute passive congestion
- barbiturates
- shock
what are the lesions of Chronic passive congestion of spleen
atrophic, fibrotic, moderate congestion
what are the causes of chronic passive congestion
- right heart failure
- portal hypertension
blackberry jam spleen
Acute splenitis
what are the lesions of acute splenitis
swollen with blood, soft
causes of acute splenitis
- anthrax.
- septicemia (e.g., erysipelas)
spleen which is swollen, red, firm with reticular cell hyperplasia
Hyperplastic splenitis
causes of Hyperplastic splenitis
subacute septicemia (e.g., salmonellosis)