https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/8098/what-have-i-just-stuck-a-needle-into Posting this anonymously as I fear my anatomy may be letting me down and I feel a bit silly! Taking a jugular blood sample earlier today from a geriatric feline (investigation for pu/pd and weight loss), the vein appeared reasonably obvious, poppeden-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/36798?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:33:43 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:e0e7c9a8-2751-4b1d-b06e-2120ea5424bbJames Allsop<p>I have also done this once - never found out what it was though, assumed it was some cystic structure at the time. cat was fine though</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/36743?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:16:01 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:1ab46ac5-0dfc-4350-87ae-c886e5df73f5Richard Fox<p>Could be thyroid cyst but I would think its more likely to be a thyroglossal duct cyst or branchial cyst or similar congenital cyts. These lesions forum embryologically but develop in adulthood. Just a thought - I doubt its is a lymphatic vessel.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/36732?ContentTypeID=1Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:41:14 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:5c8210d2-57d6-4687-acbf-b7f51d25e90fRob Loxley<p>Cystic (para)thyroid adeno/carcino-ma?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/36731?ContentTypeID=1Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:22:14 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:996fc9df-2e40-48af-9f1a-5222dcd7aed3James Laidlaw<p>Had a cat a few months back the same thing happened in - although it had a massively swollen neck and was difficult to find the vein by sight or feel - eventually got it.</p> <p>Ended up PTS and likely cancer/lymphoma suspect - swollen lymphatics I guess.</p> <p>Don&#39;t think I&#39;ve even seen it in a normal cat though.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/36728?ContentTypeID=1Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:33:24 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:95c913e8-fdbd-41d0-8132-690f55ab494akatie mountford<p>Maybe thyroid gland??</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/36727?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:28:10 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:17f1a3ce-b18e-446b-8c21-460bd405f484Michael Woodhouse<p>I&#39;d say lymph. Never done it.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>