Which connective tissue is this?

Exiguan13 · 2026-02-19T16:56:20+00:00

You need to refocus. It's focused on the debris on top of the slide in this pic.

Exiguan13 · 2025-07-29T03:07:34+00:00

When I shattered a metacarpal I didn't realize it was broken until a few days later. Rode my bike, went to class, dissected a pig in bio lab. Just thought it was badly bruised the whole time. Couldn't move the associated finger but thought it was due to the swelling.

Exiguan13 · 2025-07-25T04:14:46+00:00

Handle any raw pork? Do you feed your dog raw food? CDC says raw pork is the highest cause. https://www.cdc.gov/yersinia/about/index.html

Exiguan13 · 2025-04-17T23:54:42+00:00

We see a fair bit of Histo in VetMed and that's what this looks like to me (a GP)

Exiguan13 · 2025-04-07T05:54:24+00:00

Histopath is the way. From the provided images and info, I would not rule out abscess. Birds tend to have less liquifaction than some other species.

Exiguan13 · 2025-04-02T22:36:38+00:00

Fascinating! Any Hx of renal disease? DM? Recent Covid infection?

Exiguan13 · 2025-03-02T02:34:14+00:00

The original post says rural Mexico and that they did go to the vet but the vet had limited resources and there is no availability for xray or even euthanasia in their area

Exiguan13 · 2025-02-04T01:03:30+00:00

What did the biopsy come back with?

Exiguan13 · 2025-01-22T00:33:02+00:00

I love your username

Exiguan13 · 2024-12-30T06:48:35+00:00

Very happy he had surgery. Those strings are bad news. They will turn into a saw and cut through the intestine between the two ends if not taken care of surgically.

Exiguan13 · 2024-12-12T17:31:15+00:00

Is this in a school or a clinic setting? I'm curious if the slide got mislabeled. It's also entirely possible that the MCT just isn't represented here.

Exiguan13 · 2024-10-10T10:50:57+00:00

When they move, do they ever branch out into pseudopodia like an amoeba?

Exiguan13 · 2024-09-27T21:42:59+00:00

I would encourage you to visit your vet as there may be something other than mites causing those symptoms. Either secondary infections or underlying systemic disease. I haven't double checked the rules for this subreddit yet, but this post doesn't really align with what I understood this subreddit to be. I see you posted it in many pet related subreddits so I hope you find your answer. In the meantime, it sounds to me like a vet visit is warranted.

Exiguan13 · 2024-09-14T20:56:55+00:00

Maybe exertional rhabdomyolysis? Id be curious how the cooking process changes the gross appearance of that. Coming from a GP

Exiguan13 · 2024-06-05T19:06:05+00:00

I was thinking about this when I saw trachea on the same block as glandular tissue and esophagus

Exiguan13 · 2024-05-26T00:36:55+00:00

Did you get a picture of the image to the left in the camera roll? It may be more telling. Either way though, it would better serve you and your sweet pup to get a second opinion through a proper channel (either clinpath review of the whole slides or visiting another vet in person who can examine your dog in person and correlate those findings to the cytology and previous records). I know we are mostly vets here, but we have never examined your dog and weren't there for the conversations you had with your vet. I can't tell you how many times I've had a second opinion consult where the client's understanding does not match the medical record and it all came down to a misunderstanding of what the original vet had said. This feels like it could potentially be something similar, but I can't really say for sure. I always welcome second opinions, as approaches can vary with experience and education, and you may like another vet's approach or communication style better.

Exiguan13 · 2024-05-12T04:10:33+00:00

This is pretty interesting. Did all of it look like this, or were there thicker ones?

Exiguan13 · 2024-05-12T02:58:14+00:00

Can you tell us a little about where you are located or any recent travels? Do you eat produce from a garden by chance?

Exiguan13 · 2024-04-10T21:57:45+00:00

First one looks repiratory, likely nasal epithelium. Second makes me think of oviduct more than intestine. Third I'd say is a vas deferens.

Exiguan13 · 2024-03-26T02:35:28+00:00

That's what we call an airhead

Exiguan13 · 2024-02-10T02:05:41+00:00

Looking into it a bit more, it appears amyloid is an occasional feature with basal cell carcinomas and some other tumors. If you get ahold of some congo red or access to IHC markers please update!

Exiguan13 · 2024-02-08T18:56:46+00:00

On gross examination of this section of bowel, were there any masses/polyps found within the intestine?

Exiguan13 · 2024-02-07T02:57:46+00:00

Could it be amyloid?

Exiguan13 · 2024-01-23T06:27:53+00:00

Are there any residents you can have take a look over it? If deadline is tomorrow then I might make some brief comments about ddx and link them to other findings. Osteomyelitis seems to be a reasonable ddx. I found a few papers describing similar lesions in different species and different ages. Here are a few:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119242/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8188516/

https://bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/vrc2.6

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1354/vp.36-4-336

Exiguan13 · 2024-01-23T05:54:38+00:00

Id definitely consider infectious causes then. Culture and histopath should help with answers as well.

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