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Revision as of 14:42, 8 June 2010

Secondary tumours

  • Secondary metastatic involvement of the liver is very common
  • in the dog, malignant pancreatic and splenic tumours commonly metastasise to the liver

Melanoma

Lymphosarcoma

Secondary Liver Tumours

  • the most common secondary malignancy
  • can be present as nodules or be diffuse infiltration along the portal tracts

Gross

  • enlarged liver
  • turgid and friable
  • many minute pale foci
  • diffusely pale

Microscopically

  • tumour cells are seen to spread diffusely through the sinusoids

Carcinomas

Secondary Liver Tumours

  • from a variety of origins

Sarcomas

Secondary Liver Tumours

Mast cell tumours

Secondary Liver Tumours

Pages in category "Liver, Secondary Tumours"

The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.