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ULTRASONOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF INTESTINAL ADENOCARCINOMA IN FIVECATS
Author(s) -
Rivers Bill J.,
Walter Patricia A.,
Feeney Daniel A.,
Johnston Gary R.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
veterinary radiology and ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.541
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1740-8261
pISSN - 1058-8183
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-8261.1997.tb00859.x
Subject(s) - echogenicity , medicine , cats , thickening , adenocarcinoma , metastatic adenocarcinoma , pathology , radiology , ultrasonography , cancer , chemistry , polymer science
Adenocarcinoma, follwed by lymphossarcoma, are the most common feline intedtinal neoplasms. Clinicopathological, survey radiographic, and ultrasonographic finding of five cats with intestinal adenocarcinoma are reported. An abdominal mass was palpable in all five cats, but the mass could be localized to bowel in only two cats. Radiographically an abdominal mass was detected in only one cat. Ultrasonographically there was a segmental intestinal mural mass in all five cats. The mass was characterized by circumferential bowel wall thickening with transmural loss of normal sonographic wall layers. In one cat, the circumferential symmetric hypoechoic bowel wall thickening was similar to that reported for segmental lymphoma. In the other four cats, the sonographic features of the thickened bowel wall varied, mixed echogenicity and asymmetric in 3 cats and mixed echogenicity and symmetric in one. The results og the present report suggest that sonographic observation of mixed echogenicity segmental intestinalall thickening in the cat represents adenocarcinoma rather than lymphosarcoma, although other infilytrative disease should be considered ;