This book contains 32 illustrated chapters on the anatomical and pathological conditions of the nervous system, thorax, abdomen and musculoskeletal system of cats and the use of radiography, ultrasonography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging to diagnose the medical conditions...

Feline injection - site sarcomas (FISS) are aggressively behaving fibrosarcomas with a rate of metastasis ranging from 10 to 25%. The main treatment of soft tissue sarcomas is surgical excision with clean margins and subsequent radiotherapy and systemic chemotherapy. We present a case of an adult...

This is a case report about an eleven-year-old European Shorthair cat which was presented with hyporexia, weight loss and haematochezia. An intraabdominal mass was palpated during the physical examination. The presence of a mass in the caudal abdomen was confirmed by abdominal ultrasound and ...

Abdominal intercostal hernias are rare in small animals. A 1-year-old, entire, male, domestic shorthaired cat, weighing 3.5 kg was presented with a history of progressive swelling over the right cranial abdomen, noticed over a period of 6 months. The cat had a history of having been attacked by a...

In this paper the authors shares their experience on teaching abdominal interpretation in dogs and cats they have adopted over the years. One important technique is on body conformation wherein according to the author an important part of abdominal interpretation will be the assessment of serosal...

A 10-year-old male Persian cat was referred to Department of Surgery, Small Animals Clinic, İstanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, with the complaint of swelling under the abdomen. Micturition was normal and there was no blood, smell, or color change in the urine. In the...

Peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia (PPDH) is a communication between the abdomen and the pericardial sac generated by congenital anomalies triggered during diaphragmatic and pericardial development. This report aimed to present the case of an adult, mixed-breed cat, affected by PPDH,...

The objective of this study was to report the cytological and histopathological findings of a giant cell rich OSA in a 4-year-old cat with persistent feline leukaemia virus (FeLV) antigenaemia. Case: A 4-year-old male neutered cat was referred with a history of persistent FeLV viraemia and pelvic...

Case summary: A 15-year-old male neutered domestic longhair cat was referred for investigation of a pancreatic nodule. Fine-needle aspiration of the nodule was performed on two occasions, 2 weeks apart, and cytology revealed pyogranulomatous inflammation and moderately dysplastic exocrine...

A 6-year-old neutered female domestic shorthair cat weighing 3.1 kg was referred to the clinic owing to a 2 day history of anorexia. On physical examination, a pectus excavatum (PE) was apparent, and a cranial abdominal mass was palpated. Serum biochemical analysis showed severely elevated liver...