Category:Liver, Secondary Tumours

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