What is your diagnosis? (100)

27/10/2021 | Bovine

What is your diagnosis? (100)

Yay! Today we present the Nº 100 edition of our "What is your diagnosis?" section.

To celebrate we will do a special 10 question Quizz with some of the most emblematic cases of SESC since we started posting them at the end of 2008, how quickly have these 14 years passed!

The goal is to know if you are a true SESC follower, if you are prepared to face any lesion challenge that might appear in your slaughterhouse line!

Responses are anonymous and not registered, so let us know your score in the comments section at the end of the post! And take the opportunity to tell us what you think of the section, what we can do to improve it and if you have any other suggestions. You need to answer all the questions and then press the "Get results" button to get the final score and find out the correct answers.

Thank you so much for reading us and we hope you will continue to enjoy this blog for many more years to come.

We will have news on this website soon!

What caused this change in coloration in the blue rabbit carcasses?

Canals de conill amb taques de pigmentació blavosa a les extremitats posteriors.

These are hematomas, due to incorrect handling.

It is a melanocyte neoplasm.

It is a postmortem bacterial contamination.

These are chinese ink stains.

Why did this horse have black teeth?

Coloració negra intensa de la dentició d’un cavall.

Because it ate too much eggplants.

Lots of accumulated tartar.

Due to a dental melanosis.

This is an odontogenic melanoma.

What causes these lesions in a chicken’s liver?

A squamous cell carcinoma.

A hepatic adenocarcinoma.

It is a liver lipoidosis, from that liver one could make foie!

A lymphoid neoplasm (Marek's disease).

Remember what these black filaments in the subcutaneous fat of a pig carcass are?

Fungal hyphae, clearly.

It is a branched melanoma.

Melanosis uberis, a benign lesion of pigs and bears.

Remains of Chinese ink from a tattoo.

What would you do with a lesion like this in a lamb lung?

Nothing, it's just a sad abscess, condemn the lung and get going.

Suspect Tuberculosis and send the sample to the SESC for confirmation! Of ocurse!

No way! Sheep don't have tuberculosis, let alone lambs.

Partial condemnation, it is a case of hydatidosis (Echinococcus spp.).

Another case that made us go crazy: why did this wild boar have a purple colon?

Due to a hemorrhage in the submucosa.

Due to an intestinal torsion with passive congestion.

Because of the African swine fever virus.

Because it had been eating loads of lilac persimmons (which are this color).

And what is this that the inspectors of a slaughterhouse found on their toilet? 8-O

Oh my God, these are aliens, for sure!

The famous rat tailed larvae. They are larvae of the Eristalis tenax fly, which resembles a bee.

They are Oestrus ovis larvae, they must have escaped from the nose of a sheep.

They are larvae of Gasterophilus intestinalis that have fallen from a horse's stomach.

How will we classify these pig lesions on the condemnation logs?

(A and B: liver, C: cyst content, D: mesentery)

Easy, porcine cysticercosis.

Whaat?! Cysticercus cellullosae has been long eradicated from Europe. These must be hydatid cysts.

But there are still cases of neurocysticercosis in hospitals. This scolex is probably from Taenia solium.

Yes, it is cysticercosis, but not the zoonotic one, these are Cysticercus tenuicollis cysts.

Two lesions that are frequently observed in cattle hearts:

Tall de miocardi on es pot observar un quist blanquinós d’aproximadament 1 cm de diàmetre.

Quist intravalvular atrioventricular.

Cysts in the heart!?! Two cases of bovine cysticercosis, for sure!

The lesion in the muscle is cysticercosis, but that of the valve its just a sad, unimportant, valvular cyst.

The muscle lesion could be a nerve sheath tumor or an adenomatoid neoplasm, but that of the valve is surely cysticercosis!

Nothing relevant, the heart can be condemned just in case, but neither lesion is compatible with any known zoonoses.

What should we do if we see a pig carcass with an enlarged and hemorrhagic gastrohepatic lymph node?

Nothing, it is common for there to be some reabsorption of blood into the lymph nodes of pigs. Especially if they have been stressed.

If it’s just one animal you don’t have to suffer, but we condemn the viscera just in case.

Open the stomach to check that it does not have a gastric ulcer.

Do not panic, but an urgent enquiry must be made to SESC to rule out that it is ASF!

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2 comment(s)

Pau R.

07/11/2021

Seguiu així. Feu molt bona feina!
Suport essencial pels SVO d’escorxador.
Pau R.

07/11/2021

Home, del montón tampoc, no? 7/10. Això a la meva època era un notable. També podries dir “necessites millorar”.

En tot cas, el servei que doneu el trobo imprescindible, ja que la formació en anatomia patològica és la més necessària en un SVO d’escorxador. Encara que ens vulguin enterrar cada dia amb més “papers”.
En tot cas, tingueu en compte que les eines que tenim (en un primer moment) són els nostres ulls i un ganivet per fer alguna incisió. Res més.

Seguiu així.

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