- 著者
- Chiaki KITA Tetsushi YAMAGAMI Shigemi KINOUCHI Masayuki NAKANO Nao NAGATA Hitomi SUZUKI Yuzo OHTAKE Takuma MIYOSHI Mitsuhiro IRIE Kazuyuki UCHIDA
- 出版者
- 公益社団法人 日本獣医学会
- 雑誌
- Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (ISSN:09167250)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.13-0581, (Released:2014-01-31)
- 被引用文献数
- 1 7
A five-year-old castrated Japanese domestic cat was presented with persistent vomiting. Ultrasound examinations revealed many masses only in the liver and the fine needle aspiration was performed. Cytologically, polygonal or oval shaped tumor cells forming rosette and cord-like patterns were demonstrated and then the hepatic lesions were diagnosed as neuroendocrine carcinoma tentatively. The cat was died one month after admission and was necropsied. Histopathologically, the tumor cells of the hepatic mass were arranged in typical rosette and cord-like structures. They were considerably uniform in size with hyperchromatic round nuclei and eosinophilic cytoplasm. Most of tumor cells were immunopositive for chromogranin A and some were positive for gastrin. The findings indicate the possibility that the present case was a gastrin-producing neuroendocrine carcinoma.