The Microscopic Minute 

This case is a prime example of how unreliable mammary mass cytology can be.

A 13 year old female, spayed dog was seen by her vet for a mass on her ventrum which turned out to be coming from the mammar...

Toxic changes are seen in circulating neutrophils (i.e. in the blood smear) with inflammatory responses. Features of toxic change include: 

✔️ Dohle bodies

✔️ Cytoplasmic basophilia

✔️ Cytoplasmic ...

Rouleaux is the stacking of RBCs. This can be seen normally in cats and horses. In dogs, it is seen with pathologies/processes that result in hyperglobulinemia such as inflammation, antigenic stimulat...

It is essential to check a blood smear when your CBC analyzer tells you a patient is thrombocytopenic!

In these cases, it’s so important to microscopically evaluate the smear and do a manual platelet c...

Ready for a case challenge?

This is a horse case, but even if you’re a small animal practitioner, you’ve probably learned of this at some point even if you haven’t treated a horse since school.

This is ...

Panniculitis can be caused by a number of things including: trauma, foreign bodies, infectious organisms, pancreatic disease, Vitamin E deficiency, adverse drug reactions, immune mediated disease, and...