Hepatobiliary Pathology Flashcards

Canine liver







3 zones of acinus based on blood supply (3)


Portal tract

Other cells seen in the liver (4)


Normal liver tissue

Hepatocellular atrophy
Response to injury - hepatocellular atrophy (5)

Hepatic atrophy (regional) (5)

Hepatocellular hypertrophy (4)

Glycogenosis (4)

Steatosis/lipidosis (5)

Tension lipidosis

Steatosis/lipidosis - physiologic and pathologic (9)

Lipidosis syndromes (6)

Hepatic amyloidosis (3)

Apoptosis (3)

Necrosis (2)

Patterns of necrosis - focal, lobular (different zones) (6)

Necrosis - massive, piecemeal, sinusoid endothelial, biliary (4)

Regenerative capacity of liver (5)

Ductular reaction of liver + response to injury (8)

Fibrosis (6)

Cirrhosis (6)

Pigments found in liver (6)

Hepatic encephalopathy (7)

Cholestasis and jaundice (11)

Photosensitisation (4)

Coagulopathy/haemorrhage, oedema/ascites and hepatocutaneous syndrome (3)

Portosystemic shunt (PSS) - congenital, extrahepatic, intrahepatic (3)

Developmental disorders - arteriovenous malformation, portal vein hypoplasia, ductal plate malformations, congenital hepatic fibrosis (4)

Displacements and rupture - hernias, lobe torsion and ruptures (3)

Vascular disturbances - portal hypertension and acquired portosystemic shunts (4)

Vascular disturbances - passive congestion, hepatic veno-occlusive disease, hepatic artery, caudal vena cava thrombosis, gallbladder infarction (4)

Vascular disturbances - omphalitis, peliosis hepatis/telangiectasis (2)

Chronic hepatitis in dogs

Inflammatory diseases - lobular dissecting hepatitis, chronic hepatitis in other species, non-specific reactive hepatitis

Inflammatory diseases - cholecystitis, cholangiohepatitis, cholangitis in cats (3)

Inflammatory disease - cholelithiasis and liver lesions

Inflammatory diseases - infectious canine hepatitis: canine adenovirus 1 and Rift valley fever

Inflammatory diseases - equine serum hepatitis and bacterial hepatitis

Inflammatory disease - hepatic abscesses and hepatic necrobacillosis

Inflammatory diseases - infectious hepatitis (black disease), bacillary haemoglobinuria

Inflammatory diseases - Clostridium piliforme - Tyzzer’s disease

Toxic diseases - cat levels of detoxification enzyme activity, mechanisms of toxic hepatic injury (6)

Intrinsic vs idiosyncratic hepatotoxins (toxic diseases)

Toxic diseases - adverse drug reactions

Toxic diseases - cyanobacteria and fungi

Toxic diseases - pyrrolizidine alkaloids, iron and copper

Proliferative diseases - nodular hyperplasia, gallbladder mucocele

Proliferative diseases - hepatocellular adenoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatoblastoma

Proliferative diseases - cholangiocarcinoma, carcinoid, leiomyomas, myelolipoma, haemangiosarcoma
