Synonyms

No known synonym

Name of the disease in English

Thymic lymphoma

The disease in brief

This is a particular form of lymphoma that can occur from newborns to adults. This lymphoma is not related to enzootic bovine leukemia; a thymus lymphoma was found in the descendants of a Holstein bull in the 1990s and the anomaly was the subject of an eradication program.

Clinic & diagnosis

Clinical signs are related to the space occupied by the tumor in the mediastinum:

- Either a mass of hard tissue located at the entrance to the chest is perceptible without causing any problems

-Either more or less severe or recurring bloating will draw attention to the thymoma.

Enlargement of the prescapular lymph nodes is often found.

Typical sign of the disease

No description

Pictures

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Diagnostic formulas

No description

Differential diagnosis

-Juvenile leukemia UR24

-Bovine leukemia N30

Confirm a suspicion?

There is no readily available test during the animal's lifetime other than a tissue sample to be sent for histology. The absence of enzootic bovine leukemia can be verified on a serum

Prognosis and treatment

Fatal disease without treatment.

Prevention

No prevention for this anecdotal tumor.

References

Large animal internal Medecine-5^th edition. SMITH B.BP. Mosby ed 1071