{"id":5487,"date":"2019-08-05T08:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T07:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/nerve-sheath-tumor-in-the-heart-of-a-calf\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T19:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T18:45:43","slug":"nerve-sheath-tumor-in-the-heart-of-a-calf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/nerve-sheath-tumor-in-the-heart-of-a-calf\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerve sheath tumor in the heart of a calf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an eleven-month-old,mixed breed calf carcass, a nodular, encapsulated, lesion of about 7 cm in diameter located in the interventricular septum of the heart was observed, protruding into the right ventricle.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe histopathological study showed that it was a malignant neoplastic proliferation of fusiform mesenchymal cells that was classified as a <strong>peripheral nerve sheath tumor<\/strong>. An immunohistochemical characterization of the neoplastic cells showed the cells were positive to S100 (marker of nervous origin) and negative to desmin (muscular) and IBA-1 (macrophagic).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4182\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4182\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8215\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-1-scaled-746x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-1-scaled-746x600.jpg 746w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-1-scaled-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-1-scaled-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-1-scaled-1536x1235.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-1-scaled-2048x1646.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mass located in the interventricular septum of the heart of a calf, protruding into the right ventricle.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4183\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4183\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8217\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-2-677x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-2-677x600.jpg 677w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-2-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-2-768x680.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The appearance of the mass is necrotic and encapsulated.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4187\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4187\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8219\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The neoplastic population of generally fusiform but very pleomorphic cells (cells that present very different forms, typical of malignant neoplasms) can be observed under the microscope.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4188\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4188\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8221\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-4-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SESC-076-19-4-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The majority of tumor cells are stained with immunohistochemical staining for S100, a marker of neural crest origin that confirms that it is a nerve sheath tumor.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an eleven-month-old,mixed breed calf carcass, a nodular, encapsulated, lesion of about 7 cm in diameter located in the interventricular septum of the heart was observed, protruding 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