Skin tumour cytology

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Thomas Johnson — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 09:03:49 GMT

[quote user="Stephen Yeomans"]

I'd say this was a trabecular type trichoblastoma. The cells are spindle to cuboidal with a strong tendency to cluster, minimal nuclear pleomorphism. The surgery photos are great. I would not expect a fibrosarcoma to be so well defined, but gross appearance can be variable. What was the histopath result?

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Thank you for your comments on the cytology. No histopath unfortunately as finances were very tight, the only way the owner could afford the surgery was with help from the Cats Protection.

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Stephen Yeomans — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 02:35:13 GMT

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Hannah Wynne Richards — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:12:21 GMT

Nice one

Wynne

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Thomas Johnson — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:36:26 GMT

Hopefully my last update on this case, the wound has healed well and stitches have come out today. I've obviously warned the owner that there is a small possibility of re-growth, but so far so good.

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Thomas Johnson — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:35:18 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Dennison"]

Looks pretty bloody neat to me!

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Thank you! Some of the skin stitches in the middle are a bit further apart than I would normally do them so I was worried it would gape a little, but it looked fine the next morning.

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Anthony Dennison — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:04:45 GMT

Looks pretty bloody neat to me!

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Hannah Wynne Richards — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:59:42 GMT

Hope all goes well.

Wynne

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Thomas Johnson — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:44:16 GMT

Surgery yesterday went well. 3cm lateral margins achieved and muscle taken as deep margin. No problems with primary closure, though not quite as neat as I would have liked as its heart rate was dropping and I wanted to get it off the anaesthetic as quickly as possible. I've seen the cat back this morning and it's doing well.

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Thomas Johnson — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 18:05:00 GMT

[quote user="Tim Charlesworth"]

If the skin is too tight you could prob use a caudal superficial epigastric flap to plug the defect. Happy to talk you through this if you like (but have no idea what you're happy doing so don't want to teach you how to suck eggs)

Have fun either way,

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Thank you for the suggestion, and I really appreciate the offer to talk me through it. I have done a couple of caudal superficial epigastric flaps successfully in the past so should be okay if I have to do one for this. I might take you up on the offer if I have something complicated in the future though!

I'll let you know how it goes.

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Tim Charlesworth — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:34:19 GMT

Have fun either way,

Tim

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Thomas Johnson — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:07:57 GMT

[quote user="Tim Charlesworth"]

It will be a reasonably big hole if you take decent margins (3cm or so) and you should try to take EAO as the deep margin (at least). Being a cat, should come together OK but I would really try to push the o to let you do histo!

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Yes, it is going to be a big hole! I would really like to send it for histology, but we're already having to get help from the Cats Protection to pay for the surgery, so I don't think histo is going to be an option. There wouldn't be any money for further treatment either.

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Tim Charlesworth — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 14:48:11 GMT

Tim

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Thomas Johnson — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 08:29:29 GMT

[quote user="David Mills"]

Yep, I'd be thinking fibrosarc from this. There are a few large cells withi prominent nuclei and dark chromatin staining at the top of the picture.

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Thank you. I've booked it in to remove the mass next week, it's in the middle of its flank so it should be possible to get margins. Money is tight so I don't think we'll be able to send it for histopath.

[quote user="David Mills"]

Nice yield by the way - must have sucked hard!

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Not sure whether I should dignify this with a response

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Hannah Wynne Richards — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:08:20 GMT

I think Arlo should transfer this to the "just to make you smile " thread.

Wynne

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Lucy Fleming — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 12:36:27 GMT

I'm not much of a one for 'LOL'-ing, but I almost choked on my tea then!

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Anthony Dennison — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 12:03:55 GMT

[quote user="David Mills"]Nice yield by the way - must have sucked hard![/quote]

That's what she said.

Re: Skin tumour cytology

David Mills — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:32:02 GMT

Yep, I'd be thinking fibrosarc from this. There are a few large cells withi prominent nuclei and dark chromatin staining at the top of the picture.

Nice yield by the way - must have sucked hard!

Re: Skin tumour cytology

Anthony Dennison — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:24:39 GMT

My cytology isn't great either, but I'd tend to agree with you, various sized nuclei too.