Seminar on Cytology?

Re: Seminar on Cytology?

Richard Fox — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:44:34 GMT

Its penciled in for the end of April - its a Vet Webinar

Re: Seminar on Cytology?

Mark Hedberg — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:41:04 GMT

Sounds like an excellent lecture - where and when is it? :)

Re: Seminar on Cytology?

Richard Fox — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:10:22 GMT

That's the trouble when you give a diagnosis of a disease on cytology! I always suggest a biopsy to confirm - I hear of a lot of cases of vets treating with chemo on the basis of a cyto! I think "consistent with" should be taken as likely but biopsy to be sure! If some people want to take a cyto interpretation as gospel then that's up to you them, but apart from a few exceptions like mast cell tumours and a few others then I would suggest it is always followed up with a biopsy (if feasible) especially if the client is going to shell out £1000's of pounds on chemo!

"CYTOLOGY IS A GUIDE"

Re: Seminar on Cytology?

Richard Carter — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:44:33 GMT

And lymphoma?? had three lab 'confirmed' cases now self cure??

Re: Seminar on Cytology?

Richard Fox — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:41:19 GMT

Yup that will def be in it - Looking at inflamm vs neoplasia then subtyping inflamm and neoplasia with common examples and a few nightmares/pitfalls :)

Re: Seminar on Cytology?

Vikki Halliday LLB — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:29:08 GMT

All of the above, agree with heartily!

Would love cyto images and an idiots guide to the most common tumour types.

Re: Seminar on Cytology?

Aurelijus vet — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:12:33 GMT

I agree with Vanessa.

Re: Seminar on Cytology?

Richard Fox — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:29:08 GMT

Thanks Vanessa - I would be limiting the talk to skin lumps (only got 45 mins) but I can get access to some online gross images. I don't want to spend too much time on harvesting but was going to cover do's and don'ts and artefacts :)

Re: Seminar on Cytology?

Vanessa Butler — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:08:45 GMT

How best to take a sample, prepare it and stain would also be quite useful. Not sure if possible but including photos of the lesion grossly/history of the case and photographs of the slide of the sample with the important cell type hi-lighted and as you say differentiating common cell types be they normal or abnormal. Including the most common lesions seen in practice including FNAs, skin smear, ear samples , urine etc. Just my ideas to get the ball rolling!

Re: Seminar on Cytology?

Richard Fox — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:49:51 GMT

Anyone ?