What is this? Found inside cat.

Re: What is this? Found inside cat.

Sarah Keir — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:38:01 GMT

Thanks Tim.

I will ask the owner if they want it send off - I said I would ask around first in case some had an idea of what it is. No biopsies taken at the time as 'routine' ex lap - really the simplest linear foreign body ever, but the cat had only eaten it less than an hour previously.

Re: What is this? Found inside cat.

Tim Charlesworth — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:52:58 GMT

We see these from time to time and they are usually areas of (idiopathic) fat necrosis. They can be mineralised sometimes and show up on rads as possible mineral FB (we had one that we were convinced was a tooth once..). They are usually of no significance but if you're sending anything else off for histo I'd send this as well to be sure,

Tim

Re: What is this? Found inside cat.

John Dennis — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:45:25 GMT

[quote user="Sarah Keir"]Is this a reabsorbing blood clot or fat lump?[/quote]

I seem to remember getting this back as the histology report several years ago. But of course the language was more prosaic.

Seen several since, with little consequence by ignoring them.

Re: What is this? Found inside cat.

Sarah Keir — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:20:37 GMT

Wasn't attached to anything, everything else normal including pancreas.

Re: What is this? Found inside cat.

Hannah Wynne Richards — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:15:49 GMT

Looks (vaguely) glandular - advise owners to send for histo.

Wynne