While gingival hyperplasia is often suspected based
on clinical appearance, a biopsy may be recommended to obtain an accurate diagnosis.
This biopsy will allow your veterinarian to rule out oral cancer and other conditions that may have a
similar clinical appearance to gingival hyperplasia, ensuring an accurate diagnosis.
Histiocytoma has a
characteristic clinical appearance in the dog — it is always raised, less than 1 cm in diameter, pink in color, hairless, and has a characteristic rapid growth pattern (Figure 7).
Diagnosis is made based
on clinical appearance and looking at cells under the microscope that have been scraped off the eye.
The diagnoses obtained during an OFA Eye Certification Registry exam refer only to the observable phenotype (
clinical appearance) of an animal's eyes.
A more recent study in humans has demonstrated a major susceptibility gene with modifiers that influence
the clinical appearance of the seizure 37.
In some ways,
the clinical appearance of crd3 is similar to other common forms of late - onset PRA, namely there is retinal thinning that can be observed by a veterinary ophthalmologist in dogs as young as 3 years of age and retinal degeneration progression, resulting in total blindness within a few years.
Adenocarcinoma — Adenocarcinoma can not be differentiated from Meibomian gland adenoma based on
clinical appearance.