Differential Diagnosis in Small Animal Cytology

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Table of Contents:

PART I: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CYTOLOGY

1. Guide to the choice and correct use of the microscope (Ian Baldwin)

1.1 Choosing a supplier

1.2 Parts of a microscope

1.3 Setting up a microscope

1.4 Care of the microscope

1.5 Taking pictures of microscope images

2. Collection, preparation and staining of cytology specimens

2.1 Materials

2.2 Sampling techniques

2.3 Smear preparation techniques

2.4 Slide staining

3. Guidelines to cytology smear examination

3.1 Step-by-step approach to the slide examination and description

3.2 Interpretation of the cytological findings

4. Cytological criteria of malignancy

4.1 General criteria of malignancy

4.2 Nuclear criteria

4.3 Cytoplasmic criteria

PART II: CYTOLOGY OF SKIN AND SUBCUTIS

5. Skin and subcutis anatomy

5.1 Main components of the skin and subcutis

5.2 Main cell types observed on cytology

6. Inflammatory lesions

6.1 Neutrophilic inflammation

6.2 Macrophagic inflammation

6.3 Eosinophilic inflammation

6.4 Lymphocytic inflammation

6.5 Inflammation caused by infectious agents

6.6 Panniculitis

6.7 Xanthoma

6.8 Injection site and foreign body reaction

6.9 Pemphigus foliaceus (PF)

7. Cysts, tumour-like lesions and response to tissue injury

7.1 Follicular cysts

7.2 (Sweat gland) apocrine cyst

7.3 Fibroadnexal hamartoma

7.4 Haematoma and haemorrhage

7.5 Necrosis

7.6 Calcinosis

7.7 Granulation tissue

7.8 Nodular fasciitis

8. Epithelial tumours

8.1 Tumours without squamous or adnexal differentiation

Basal cell tumour and basal cell carcinoma

8.2 Epidermal tumours

Papilloma

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)

8.3 Follicular tumours

Trichoblastoma

Trichoepithelioma

Infundibular keratinizing acanthoma (IKA) (dog)

Pilomatricoma

8.4 Sebaceous tumours

Sebaceous adenoma, epithelioma and carcinoma

Perianal gland adenoma, epithelioma and carcinoma (dog)

8.5 Apocrine gland tumours

Sweat gland adenoma and carcinoma

Ceruminous gland adenoma and carcinoma

Anal sac adenocarcinoma (ASAC)

8.6 Clear cell adnexal carcinoma (dog)

8.7 Merkel cell tumour

8.8 Diagnostic algorithms

9. Mesenchymal tumours and other neoplasms

9.1 Mesenchymal tumours

Fibroma and fibrosarcoma

Myxoma and myxosarcoma

Keloidal fibroma and fibrosarcoma

Perivascular wall tumours (PWTs)

Lipoma

Liposarcoma

Haemangioma

Haemangiosarcoma

Anaplastic sarcoma with giant cells and pleomorphic sarcoma

Injection site sarcoma

Rhabdomyoma and rhabdomyosarcoma

9.2 Histiocytic tumours

Histiocytic sarcoma (HS)

Feline progressive dendritic cell histiocytosis (FPH)

Other canine histiocytic disorders

9.3 Melanocytic tumours

10. Round cell tumours

10.1 Canine mast cell tumour (canine MCT)

10.2 Feline mast cell tumour (feline MCT)

10.3 Cutaneous histiocytoma (dog)

10.4 Plasma cell tumour

10.5 Transmissible venereal tumour (TVT)

10.6 Cutaneous lymphoma

11. Metastatic lesions

12. Suggested further reading and references

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