Necroscopy preperation - Written document Flashcards
Organ description
- Shape
- Size
- Color
- Consistency
- Cut surface
1. Colour
2. Structure
3. Moisture
Organ description extra
- Liver –> Tearability
- Kidney –> Remove capsule, see Cortex and Medulla
- Spleen –> Cut surface –> Scrapability of the pulp
- Lymhnodes –> Moveability
- Luminal organs –> Distenden/Dilated
Which glands?
- Thyroid
- Pancreas
- Adrenal
Parenchymal organs
- Liver
- Lungs
- Kidney
- Brain
Lymphoid organs
- Lymph nodes
- Thymus
- Spleen
Mesenchymal tissue
- Bone marrow
- Fat
- Muscle
- Baby teeth - Dental pulp
- Cartilage
- Tendon
- Ligament
- Connective tissue
General patho check-list
Use this when you see the lesion
- Post mortem changes
- Circlatory changes - Blood, Oedema
- Regressive changes - necrosis, fat infiltration
- Prolifferative changes - Collagen, Fibers
- Inflamation
- Tumours
- Development anormalies
Liquid could be, and from lesion?
- Serous
- Purulent
- Sero-mucus
- Muco-purulent
- Sero-sanguineus fluid - ‘Like blood’
From Lesion
* Purulent
* Ichorous
* Caseous (dry)
* Tumour necrosis
Exudate, Modified, Transudate?
LUNGS
Patological findings (types)
1. Consolidated lung
* Darker
* Firmer
* No crepitation
* Atelactatic
2. Emphysematous lung
* Paler
* More creppitation
3. Congested (CS) lung
* Blood flow on the surface
LUNGS
Tumours found in the lung could be
Mesothelioma –> Visceral plaura
LUNGS
Types of pneumonia
- Bronchopneumonia
- Interstitial pneumonia
- Metastatic pneumonia
- Aspiration pneumonia
- Pulmonary oedema
LUNGS
Bronchopneumonia
1. Which lobes
2. Types
3. Appearance
4. Shape, Size, Colour, Consistency
BRONCHOPNEUMONIA
1. Cranio-ventral lung lobes
2.
Purulent (pasteurella)
Acute - Hyperaemic
Chronic - Fish meat like
* Cattarhal*
* Fibrinous - Bronchoalveolar junction
3. Mottled appearance?
Darker, lighter area
Multifocal purulent coalescing nodules - PURULENT
- Shape, Size = ENLARGED, Colour,
* Consistency
Cattarhal = Gland like
Fibrinous = Liver like + Fibrinous accumulation
LUNG
Interstitial pneumonia
- Dark purple
- Bacteria from CT
- Not in airways - Check bronchus
- Abcess in parenchyma
- Muscle flacid palpation
- Rubbery - Enlarged lungs not colapsed - rib imprints
Heavy/Wet lung
LUNGS
Metastatic pneumonia
- Cranio-ventral lunglobes
- Foci will be everywhere - No parenchyma palpation
- (Piglet if canibalism - Ear and tail biting)
LUNGS
Pulmonary Edema
- Foam in trachea + Bronchi
- Difuse congestion + Atelactasia
LUNGS
Aspiration pneumonia - Where do we find it
Right middle lobe
LUNG
PIG - PNEUMONIA types
Viral and bacterial
Viral (Interstitial)
* PRRSV = Porcine repro and resp syndrome
* PCV-2 = Procine circovirus
* Swine influenza
* Africal swine fever
Bacterial (Bronchopneumonia)
* Mycoplasma
* Actinobacillus Pleuropneumonia
* (Pasteurella, Strepto, Bordetella = Atropic Rhinitis)
LUNG
DOG Pneumonia
Types
Viral and bacterial
VIRAL
- Distemper
- Adenovirus
- Herpes virus
- Parainfluenza
BACTERIAL
- Pasteurella
- Bordetella Bronchiseptica (infectious laryngo trachealis)
- Klebsiella
LUNG
CATTLE Pneumonia
Types
VIRAL
- BHV-1
- Parainfluenza
- BHV-4?
- BAdV
BACTERIAL
- Pasteurella
- Mycoplasma (Croupous Pneumonia)
- Fog fever = ABPEE
- Mycoplasma
LUNG
FELINE Pneumonitis
Types
- Chlamydophila (Bact)
- Feline Calcivirus (Viral)
- Toxoplasma Gondii (Protozoa)
- Lungworm/fluke (Parasites)
LUNG
RABBIT PNEUMONIA
Types
NON-INFECTIOUS
- Allergies
- Smoke/aerosols/dust
- Increased NH3
BACTERIAL
- Pasteurella Multocida
- Chlamydia
- Staphylococcus Aureus
VIRAL
- Pleural effusion disease
- Myxoma Virus
- Herpes
Name Circulatory changes
- Haemorrhage
- Stenosis
- Infarcts
- Congestion (Passive/active)
- Amyloidosis
- Artereosclerosis
- Ischemia
- Torsion
- Rupture
- Emboslism
- Oedema
Name Inflamatory changes
- Cataharral
- Fibrinous (acute/chronic or Cropous- can peel/Diphteric- cannot peel)
Name Regressive changes
- Atrophy
- Fat infiltration
- Fibrosus
- Necrosis
- Cloudy swelling/Hydropic Degradation (“Ballooning”)
- Pigmentation
- Amyloidosis
- Mineralization
SPLEEN
Normal description
Shape, Size, color, consistency, cutsurface
- Normal shape and size
- Brown red, Blueish brown colour
- Consistency - Flacid
- Capsule - Wrinkled
- Cut surface –> Color, structure, medium moist, medium easy to scrape the pulp.
SPLEEN
Lesion
Location
Distribution
Space occupying or liquid
SPLEEN
Lesion
Determine whether the lesion are
1. Focal nodular
2. Multifocal
- Hyperplasia, Prolifferative change
3. Diffuse
- Enlargement + Paler colour = Lymphoma
SPLEEN
Tumours of the spleen
- Lymphoma (diffuse)
- Haemangiosarcoma (multifocal nodules)
- Granulomas (Tuberculosis)
SPLEEN
Enlarged spleen
- Congested - Dark red + cutsurface blood running = Hyperaemic spleen
- Cutsurface dry + no blood running =
Hyperplastic spleen
Types of SPLEEN (pathological)
- Enlarged
Congested Hyperaemic spleen
Dry Hyperplastic spleen - Meaty spleen
Lymphoma - Hemangiosarcoma
- Hematoma
- Hemangioma
Meaty SPLEEN
- No structure recognized
- No Hyperaemia - pale red
- Diffuse enlargement = Spleenomegaly
- (Lymphoma - Tumour of white pulp - easier to scrape pulp)
See lymphoid follicles
Characteristics HEMANGIOSARCOMA (Spleen)
- Allways nodular
- Bleeding in spleen
- Increased scrapability
- Dark red, focal
LIVER
Pathological findings
- No gallbladder visuable - region where it was a lesion - Black colour, really thick wall, dry fragmented consistency = Mucokele
- Tumours
- Nodular hyperplasia
- Nutmeg liver
- Cystic lesion
- Serous hepatitis
- Cholangitis
- Cirrhosis
What are the tumours of the LIVER
- EPITELIAL
Hepatocellulare (Carcinomas)
Cholangiocellulare (Carcinomas) - MESENCHYMAL
Tumors can get metastatic tumors via Portal vein
LIVER - NODULAR HYPERPLASIA
- **Multifocal nodular **lesion throughout lobes
- Yellowish discoloration - Steatopathy
Softer consistency, increased moisture, Slightly enlarged
NUTMEG LIVER
= Macrovesicular Fatty infiltration
- Dystrophy
Cystic lesion - LIVER
- With huge cystic (cholangiocellulare carcinoma) caverns –> Filled with clear fluid
Serous Hepatitis - LIVER
Granular rough surface
Diseases/Findings of the HEART
- Rigor mortis
- Hgb imbibition
- Euthanasia percipitate
- ENDOCARDITIS
- ENDOCARDIOSIS
- Persistent foramen Ovale
- Persistent ductus arteriosus
- Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Tumours
- Myocarditis
- Dirofilaria
HEART - Euthanasia percipitate
Whiteish pinpoint foci (right side)
Black (from practical?)
HEART
Endocarditis
- Rough + Thickend + Granular, yellowish lumpy –> Thrombosis on valves - Risk of thromboembolism
- Yellowish lumpy - Bacterial colonies = vegetations
- Granular - Cant see valvular structure
- Ulcerative/Uremic endocarditis - LA + Mineralization (dogs)
HEART
Endocardiosis
- Thrombus on edge of valve
- Valve short and thickend
(But smooth and shiny) - Chambers can also be dilated
- Focal nodular or diffuse
- Very common
- Myxomatous valvular degeneration
HEART
Fetal cardiac shunt
- Persistent For.Ovale
- Persistent Ductus Arteriosus
HEART
Persistent For. Ovale
- Fetal cardiac shunt
- Atrial-septal defect
- Blood enter left atrium from right atrium
- “Double apex”?
HEART
Persistent Ductus arteriosus
- Fetal cardiac shunt
- Pulmonary artery – Aorta
- Jet lesion in intima of pulmonary trunk
HEART
Cardiomyopathy
- Dilated cardiomyopathy (dog)
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (cat)
In hypertrophy, the heart weight increase
HEART
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
- **ECCENTRIC HYPERTOOPHY **(volume) - Valvular insufficient septal deffect
- Increase size of chamber - Dilation
- Prominent trabecule and valve
- Simple dilation -** no increase in weight**
- Apex rounded
- Pressure - Valvular stenosis, hypertension, pulmonary disease
HEART
HYPERTROPHIC Cardiomyopathy
- CONCENTRIC HYPERTROPHY of left ventricle wall + septum.
- Thick walls,** small ventricular chamber**
- Thick pappilllary muscles
-** Apex normal** - Cats
- Pulmonary edema, Shock kidney
- Enlarged thyroid - secondary concequense due to hyperthyroidism
HEART
Myocarditis
- Purulent
- Necrotic
- Parasitic (toxoplasma)
- Sarcocystisis