Case Report: Splenic Fibrosarcoma in a Campbell's Hamster

Abstract

A 2.5-year-old intact female hamster (Phodopus campbelli) was referred to the VMTH of NCHU on May 7th, 2013 for a swelling of left abdomen and signi¯cant decrease in appetite. Physical examination revealed the enlarged abdomen slightly a®ected the patient's mobility. Ā rm mass was palpated in the left abdominal cavity. Tentative diagnosis was an abdominal mass. An exploratory laparotomy and splenectomy was performed together with the removal of a mass of 1 Â 1 Â 0:8 cm in size and 3.6 g in weight. Grossly, the mass was well capsulated and covered by a sac which¯lled with blood-like discharge. Histologically, diagnoses were made according to the results of hematoxylin and eosin, Masson's trichrome and vimentin immunohistochemistry stained sections. Based on the histological characteristics, the¯nal diagnosis was a splenic¯brosarcoma in a Campbell's hamster. The patient is fully recovered after surgery but the hamster died of natural causes four months later.A 2.5-year-old intact female hamster was referred to the VMTH of NCHU on May 7, 2013 with poor appetite and mobility. The hamster was presented with onset of anorexia during a previous visit to another veterinary hospital one month ago. The owners had also noted there was a large and¯rm swelling in the left abdomen of the hamster. §

Occurrence of splenic leiomyosarcoma in dog: anatomopathological findings

“…The histochemistry by Masson's trichrome staining (MTS) contributed significantly to the diagnosis, staining in red the cytoplasm of muscle cells, as indicated in the literature for well-differentiated splenic sarcomas (Morais, Argyle and O´Brien, 2010;Liptak and Forrest, 2013;Valli et al, 2017). Considering the microscopic characteristics by the HematoxylinEosin (HE), MTS and the fibrosarcoma stained in blue by the MTS, as also found by Yang et al (2014) and Park et al (2015).…”