Diagnostic Exercise 2

Case 2 (a)

This photograph is from a dog.

• Systematically look at that kidney starting either in the pelvis or in the cortex and evaluate each segment of kidney anatomy.
• Make your data base of observations and then try to decide what the process is. (There may actually be more than one process.)
• What this dog might look like clinically?

The cortex is PALE AND THICK. Do you see striations? The renal crest (papilla) is opaque white and necrotic = renal papillary necrosis. Consider this a large white kidney. The observations are consistent with amyloidosis