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Performing and Processing FNA of Anterior Fat Pad for Amyloid
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[Systemic cutaneous and subcutaneous amyloidosis in the horse]
Veterinary Pathology
|January 1, 1975
Abstract:
A 9-year-old horse had numerous firm, painless nodules of the skin and subcutis. Moderately vascular granulation tissue with numerous uni- or multinuclear reticuloendothelial cells was in the nodules and the regional lymph nodes but not in the viscera. By using special stains and electron microscopy, widespread amyloid deposits, mainly in the cytoplasm of reticuloendothelial cells, were identified. Amyloid was probably produced within the reticuloendothelial cells, then expelled from the dying cell and deposited in the intercellular space.
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