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37 Cards in this Set
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Which type of DNA viruses has these characteristics?
- Cause cell death - Spread of infection - Non-oncogenic |
Productive
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Which type of DNA viruses has these characteristics?
- Integration - No spread - Tumor cells formed |
Transforming
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Liver doesn't synthesize urea correctly, so NH4 levels rise causing CNS signs and toxicity. What condition is this?
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Hepatic encephalopathies
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What is hepatic encephalopathy related to in dogs?
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Portosystemic shunts
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What is hepatic encephalopathy related to in horses?
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Acute liver disease
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What is hepatic encephalopathy related to in cattle?
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Chronic liver disease
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Two histologic features of reversible hepatocellular injury
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- Vacuolation
- Atrophy |
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Two general causes of atrophy of hepatocytes
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- Lack of growth factors reaching liver
- Pressure from surrounding viscera |
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Four types of necrosis
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- Single cell
- Coagulative - Liquefactive - Caseous |
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What defines a coagulative necrosis?
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Cells maintain outline
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What defines a liquefactive necrosis?
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Rapid digestion of dead cells by hydrolytic enzymes
- Loss of cellular architecture |
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What defines a caseous necrosis?
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Friable material with cheese-like consistency within a wall of granulomatous inflammation
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Six patterns of necrosis of the liver
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- Focal/multifocal
- Centrilobular - Midzonal - Periportal - Massive - Piecemeal |
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What causes centrilobular necrosis? (2)
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- Hepatocytes furthest from portal vein are susceptible to hypoxia
- Viral infections |
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What causes periportal necrosis?
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Unmetabolized toxins
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What causes midzonal necrosis?
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High enough [enzyme] to perform phase I but not enough to perform phase II, so reactive intermediates from phase I are just hanging around and start messing up the joint
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Morphological term for liver changes caused by chronic passive congestion
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Nutmeg liver
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What are multifocal lesions of fibrosis and chronic inflammation of the liver caused by larval ascarid migration called?
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Milk spots
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Morphology of acute hepatotoxicity (3)
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- Enlarged liver
- Accentuated lobular pattern - Edema of gallbladder wall |
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Morphology of chronic hepatoxicity
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Small, shrunken, nodular
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Disease characterized by Spherical, sharply demarcated nodules
- Benign - Affects older dogs |
Hyperplastic Liver nodules
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Disease characterized by Massive enlargement of single lobe or diffuse involving multiple lobes
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Hepatocellular carcinoma
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Gross appearance of bilary adenomas (cholangiomas)
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White, solid, or cystic masses of well-differentiated bile ductules
- Benign - Affects older cats |
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Gross appearance of Biliary carcinomas (cholangiocarcinomas)
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Multifocal, solid, white/tan, depressed
- Locally invasive - Malignant - Affects older dogs |
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Gross appearance of cystic mucinous hyperplasia of the gall bladder
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Numerous clear to yellow/green nodules
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Clinically significant form of cystic mucinous hyperplasia
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Biliary mucocele
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Disease characterized by:
- Diarrhea - Weight loss - Polyphagia |
Pancreatic acinar atrophy
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Gross morphology of acute pancreatitis (4)
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- Swollen
- Edematous - Variable hemorrhage - Fibrinous adhesions |
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Chalky white areas of necrosis in peripancreatic fat
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Saponification
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Gross morphology of chronic interstitial pancreatitis of cats
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Smaller, firm, gray, irregular pancreas
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Morphology of chronic interstitial pancreatitis of cats
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- Small, firm, irregular pancreas
- Atrophy of acinar tissue - Fibrosis |
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Morphology of exocrine pancreatic hyperplasia
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Multiple small, firm, white/tan, slightly raised nodules within pancreas
- Should not be confused as a neoplasm |
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Aggressive malignant neoplasms of acinar or ductular origin that implant on peritoneal surface or metastasize to other organs
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Exocrine pancreatic carcinomas
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What muscle disease is characterized by Serous atrophy of fat?
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Cachectic atrophy
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Diffuse spread of infection through CT and along fascial planes of muscle
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Phlegmon
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What is the cause of eosinophillic myositis?
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HS to degenerating sarcocysts in skeletal muscle
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What is nutritional myopathy of cattle AKA?
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White muscle disease
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