[Histonet] proventricular dilatation images?

[Cheryl Cross]

Hi I-sanna -

I don't have any images readily available - there is a nice little  
review with some histopathology here, however:

http://www.vet.uga.edu/vpp/ivcvm/1998/gregory/index.php

What I can tell you is that in many cases  can be a very very subtle  
disease - often there are just a few lymphocytes around the nerve  
ganglia - very very subtle. if you look at just a normal  
proventriculus histology book - an animal with really remarkable with  
have a thinned, stretched out proventriculus, but the histology can  
look very similar. It's easier to diagnose grossly (in my experience  
anyway), because the amount of inflammation histopathologically  
doesn't always match up with the degree of dilatation (ie animals  
with a marked dilation can have minimal inflammation).

make sense?

CC

Cheryl Cross, DVM, Dipl. ACVP
Researcher
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Tennessee Department of Pathology
2407 River Drive, Room A201
Knoxville, TN 37996-4542
(423) 967-2724
fax: 865-974-5616
ccross <@t> ucar.edu





On Oct 12, 2007, at 2:04 PM, I-sanna Gibbons wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have histological images of proventricular dilatation  
> and also images of the normal for comparison?
>
> Thanks
> I-sanna
>
>
>
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