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Cleft palate
Causes: Hereditary, prenatal drug or toxin exposure.
Brachygnathia superior-shortness of maxilla; most common in short nosed dogs.
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Prognathia-long mandible; most common in sheep
Targeted destruction of ameloblasts during tooth formation.
Dogs: prenatal Canine distemper virus
Cattle: prenatal BVD, fleurosis, Ca deficiency
Inflammatory destruction of the gingiva, periodontal ligament, alveolar bone, and root cementum.
Plasmacytic-Lymphoplasmacytic Stomatitis
Occurs in cats
Proliferative lesions, most common at the glossopharyngeal arches
Eosinophilic granuloma complex-rodent ulcer
Cats
Cause unknown, may be linked to food hypersensitivity, or feline leukemia virus
Eosinophilic granuloma complex-oral eosinophilic granuloma
Cats
Cause unknown, may be linked to food hypersensitivity, or feline leukemia virus
Thrush-Candida albicans
Self-limiting, opportunistic fungal infection of young animals.
Yellow-white pseudomembranous hyperkeratosis
Wooden Tongue
Caused by actinobacillus lignieresii (gram neg).
Typically enters the tissue via penetrating wound.
Oral ulcers
Cattle: vesicular stomatitis, bovine papular stomatitis, BVD, Foot and mouth, Malignant Catarrhal Fever
Cats: Calicivirus, herpes virus
Pigs: Calicivirus
Horses: Herpes virus
All: Uremia, trauma/foreign body, ingesting caustic substances.
Uremic ulcers
Tend to occur on the ventral tongue margin
Lumpy jaw
Caused by Actinomyces bovis (gram pos)
Enters by penetrating wounds in the oral cavity
Granulomatous-suppurative lesions with boney degeneration.
Proliferative fibrogingival hyperplasia
Benign lesion-secondary to chronic gingivitis
Should be smooth
Usually multifocal, but can be focal.
Viral papilloma (papillomavirus)
Species and tissue specific
Occur in young puppies and cattle
Benign, multifocal, and tend to spontaneously regress. Can be removed if interfering with eating.
Epulides (sing-epulus)
Benign lesion originating from the periodontal ligament.
Can be fibrous or ossifying.
Does not invade the bone!
Acanthomatous ameloblastoma
Originates from the odontogenic epithelium.
Locally invasive (often into alveolar bone), but does not metastasize.
Oral melanosarcoma
Malignant-invasive and metastatic
Most common oral neoplasia in dogs.
Oral squamous cell carcinoma
Malignant-infiltrative, boney destruction, metastatic (late).
Most common malignant oral tumor of cats, second most common in dogs.
Oral fibrosarcoma
Malignant-infiltrative, low metastatic rate.
Second most common oral neoplasia in cats.
Esophageal submucosal gland dilation
Incidental finding in the distal esophagus of dogs.
Distal esophageal muscular hypertrophy
Incidental finding in horses
Bloat line
Well demarcated line at or cranial to the thoracic inlet.
Indicates that the cow actually died of bloat, vs bloating during decomposition.
Esophageal ulceration
Causes: Trauma, foreign body, caustic substances, medication lodged in esophagus (esp. tetracycline and doxycycline), BVD infection in cattle.
Megaesophagus
Causes: PRAA, myesthenia gravis, stricture, idiopathic
Gongylonema pulchrum
Nematode embedded in the mucosa
Typically not clinically significant
Esophageal viral papillomas
Occur in cattle, caused by papillomavirus
Spirocera lupi
Spirurid nematode
Causes granulomatous and eosinophilic esophagitis
May be associated with esophageal osteosarcoma and fibrosarcoma
Rumenitis/Rumen ulcers
Common causes are grain overload or fungal ruminitis.
Brachygnathia inferior-short mandible
Common in calves and long-nosed dogs
Pigs: Happens most commonly at the pars esophagea.
Cattle: Abomasal ulcers; caused by acidosis, fungal infection, stress, or LSA.
Canine: Common causes are NSAIDs, mast cell tumors, and gastrinomas
Feline: Uremia, and similar causes to dogs.
Ostertagia (cattle) or Teladorsagia (small ruminants).
Characteristics "cobblestone" appearance.
Equine Gasterophilus
Incidental finding-no clinical signs
Helicobacter
Must use special stain to see.
Probably an incidental finding, hard to verify as the cause of clinical disease.
Proventricular dilatation disease
Bornavirus.
GI primarily, also heart, CNS, and adrenals
Gastric rupture
Most common in horses
Muscle wall tears along the greater curvature, mucosa tears last.
Gastric dilatation volvulus
Dogs
Pulls mesentery over the stomach. Causes organ ischemia.
GI lymphosarcoma
Common in cattle and cats.
Cattle: Caused by bovine leukemia virus; abomasum is most common GI location.
Cats: stomach and ileum are most commonly affected.
Gastric squamous cell carcinoma
Most common in horses
Cauliflower like mass in the squamous portion of the stomach.
Can metastasize.
Hyperplastic GALT
Incidental finding
Hemomelasma ilei
Incidental finding in horses
Lymphoplasmacytic enteritis
Type of inflammatory bowel disease
Eosinophilic enteritis
Lots of pink!
Type of inflammatory bowel disease
Causes: Parasites, fungal or allergy
Feline infectious peritonitis
Wet or dry form
Peyers patch necrosis
Cattle: Caused by BVD
Dogs: Caused by Parvovirus (may also cause intestinal hemorrhage).
Fibrinous enteritis
Raccoons: Parvovirus
Rotavirus/coronavirus
Intestinal wall-flaccid, thin, transparent.
Due to villous atrophy and loss
Johne's disease
Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis
Cattle
Corrogated appearance in the ileum and large intestines
(looks similar to Lawsonia intracellularis in pigs)
Lawsonia intracellularis
"Proliferative ileitis"
Occurs in pigs and horses
May also cause necrosis and hemorrhage in pigs (Porcine proliferative enteropathy)
Appears similar to Johne's disease
Clostridial enteritis
Occurs in dogs, pigs, and horses
Causes hemorrhage
E. coli, edema disease
Most common in pigs less than 5 days old.
Watery diarrhea
Shiga-toxin causes edema in the intestinal tissues.
Salmonella colitis
Horses: Bloody diarrhea and ulceration
Pigs: Button ulcers, associated with strictures
Most common in horses, does occur in ruminants
Ulcerative enterocolitis
Colonic histoplasmosis
Dogs
Thickened large intestines
Pythium insidiosum
Invades the muscular layer
Causes a palpable abdominal mass
Endarteritis-strongyle infarction
Migration irritates vasculature, causes non-strangulating infarct.
Coccidiosis
Fibrinohemorrhagic or fibrinonecrotic enteritis with white nodules in the mucosal surface
Chickens and Pigs
Lymphangectasia
"shag carpet"-prominent white, thickened villi, may also see granulomatous lesions along the mesenteric lymphatics
Occurs in dogs and horses
Leads to PLE
Intussusception
Caused by anything altering motility-eg. parvo, parasites, diarrhea
Intestinal strangulation
Common in horses-pedunculated lipomas
Intestinal obstructive entrapment
Intestine gets trapped in a mesenteric rent, note well demarcated line
Intestinal torsion/volvulus
Common in the large colon of horses, and pigs
Enterolith
Common in horses
Intestinal obstruction
Intestinal lymphosarcoma
White-grey, bulging thickened wall
Intestinal carcinoma
Causes stenotic thickening with dilation proximal to the tumor site.
Metastasizes regionally, distantly, peritoneally.
Pancreatitis with fat necrosis (saponification)
Pancreatic acinar atrophy
Leads to exocrine pancreatic insufficiency
Most common in German shepherds and rough-coated collies
Nodular pancreatic hyperplasia
Benign
Variable sized white nodules
Which hepatic diseases exhibit centrilobular/midzonal patterns?
Lipidosis, glycogen storage disease, and necrosis
Which hepatic diseases exhibit periportal patterns?
Infiltrates, lymphoma, inflammation, and necrosis
Which hepatic diseases exhibit centrilobular (only) patterns?
Congestion and necrosis
Which hepatic diseases exhibit random patterns?
Bacterial and viral infections.
"nutmeg liver"
Chronic passive congestion associated with right heart failure
Liver will have rounded edges with fibrin on the capsule.
Steroid hepatopathy
Pale tan, enlarged, rounded, friable liver
Dogs
Hepatic lipidosis
Pale tan to yellow, enlarged, may float
Cats: Starvation->fat mobilization->overwhelms liver
Ruminants: Overconditioned and pregnant->increased nutritional demand with decreased food intake->fat mobilization->liver overwhelmed
Amyloidosis
Pale tan, WAXY, friable to firm
Most common in Abyssinian cats and Sharpei dogs
Incidental finding in cats and cattle.
Proliferation of small blood vessels within the liver.
Looks the same as hemangiosarcoma in the dog, but telangiectasia does not occur in dogs.
Congenital portosystemic shunt
Liver will also be small. Causes portal hypoperfusion, which can only be differentiated from primary portal vein hypoplasia by the presence of a shunt.
Describe feline inflammatory liver disease.
Two types: lymphocytic portal hepatitis and cholangiohepatitis.
Causes pale, tan-white liver with reticular pattern.
Describe chronic hepatitis in dogs.
Small firm liver with histologic fibrosis.
Hepatic necrosis
Hepatic abscess-caseous lymphadenitis
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
Green/white abscesses with "onion skin" appearance in a variety of organ tissues
Cirrhosis
Non-specific end stage lesion of liver disease.
Commonly associated with toxic insult (eg. aflatoxin)
Hepatic nodular hyperplasia
Benign, older animals
Cholangiocarcinoma
Multifocal, with 1-2 large masses
Arises from biliary epithelium
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Typically one large mass on a single lobe. Good prognosis if entire lobe is removed.
Hepatocellular lymphosarcoma
Nodular to diffuse, white-tan, bulges
Feline visceral mast cell tumor
Big, pale tan liver
Spleen is typically also affected.
Hemangiosarcoma
Dogs
Looks similar to telangectasia in cats and cattle.
Gallbladder-cystic mucinous hyperplasia
Thickened and bumpy mucosa
Gallbladder mucocele
"kiwi" appearance on ultrasound
Causes obstruction, mural necrosis, and may rupture the gallbladder leading to peritonitis
Gallbladder fibrinous casts
Associated with salmonella infection in cattle