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| A dog walks in with huge golf ball size lymph nodes. What technique will you use to do cytology tests? |
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| True or False, gram stain in ear cytology must be heat fixed. |
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| For a firm lesion that has few cells, what technique would you use for cytology? |
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| You have a swab sample, how must you take the sample from the swab to the slide? |
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| What can happen if you push the swab too hard on to the slide? |
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| A dog has a lesion on its hip. The doctor wants to check for a bacterial infection. |
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| How do you do a Tzanch Preparation |
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Require at least 6 slides
- Imprint before the lesion is cleaned
- Clean the lesion with saline and a surgical sponge
Imprint #2 is taken
- De-bride lesion and take imprint #3
- If scab is present, imprint underside of lesion #4
- Imprint exposed tissue #5 |
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| A dog has a mass on its liver. What sampling technique would be appropriate for this mass? |
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| What size needle and syringe is needed for a fine needle aspirate of a cat’s lymph node? |
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25g needle
3-20g syringe (more than likely 10g Syringe) |
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| True or false, Motility of sperm depends on the amount of swirling activity observed in a drop of semen observed in low magnification? |
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| What procedure uses the stab technique and capillary technique to obtain the sample? |
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| A fluid sample collected directly from the abdomen is called what? |
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| Paracentesis/ Abdominalcentesis |
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| What biopsy technique takes minimal time but does require a local anesthetic and maybe one or two sutures? |
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| A fractious cat comes in presenting with a severe cough and the vet wants to obtain a sample. What is the best method? |
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| Testing cerebral spinal fluid that has a low cell count so it needs to be concentrated prior to analysis. How can it be concentrated? |
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| Either low speed centrifugation or Gravitational sedimentation |
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| A really thick sample that was obtained through fine needle aspirate. What is the best technique to make a slide? |
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| A Clinical mastitis sample will usually have what percentage of neutrophils in it? |
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| What type of smear technique makes 3 distinct different areas of cell distribution? |
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| What stain works well for staining the cytoplasm of the cell? |
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| A fluid sample with low cellular concentration. What would be the best slide prep technique? |
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| You need to determine is the cells are neoplastic or inflammatory. What is the best stain to use? |
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| You need to send sample to a reference laboratory. How do they need to be submitted? |
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Submit 2-3 direct smears and 2-3 Romanowsky Stained smears.
Fluids go into a EDTA/ Red top
Labeled w/ patients history
don't mix unfixed slides w/ formalin |
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| True or false. Dairy farmers never worry about bovine mastitis, clinical or subclinical. |
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| You have a slide that shows cells in various stages of mitotic activity. How would the cell be categorized? |
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| True or False. Prostate problems are not common in cats? |
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| You have a tumor that is highly cellular and comes off in clumps or sheets. What type of tumor could it be? |
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| What type of tumor is a melanoma? |
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| Discrete round cell tumor |
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| Peritoneal and plural fluids are evaluated for TNCC. What is considered to be normal? |
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| Less than 10,000 nucleated cells |
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| What kind of cell lines the body cavity and become reactive? |
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| A fluid sample that includes lymphocytes, plasma cells, WBC’s, neoplastic cells and bacteria would come from where? |
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| What is the most common method of semen collection |
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| Is it important to record the method of collection |
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| What cytology sample contains evidence of Malassezia and Yeast cells |
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| What stage of the estrus cycle has a high number of RBC's, basil, and parabasil epithelial cells |
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| You stain a cytology slide for microscopic examination. What step ensures the highest quality preparation? |
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| What does nuclear molding mean |
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| Deformation of nuclei by other nuclei |
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| What is another name for sarcoma |
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| What is the word for cell fragmentation? |
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| Any variation in overall size of the nucleus |
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| What is another name for Adenocarsenoma |
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| What is the word for Slow Cell Death |
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| Variability in size and shape of the same cell type |
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| If we are doing microbiologic testing, what technique would require surgical preparation? |
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| What are the 3 Zones that needs to be shown in a Wedge Biopsy |
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Abnormal Tissue
Transition Zone
Normal Zone |
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| What must be recorded in any Centisis Procedure |
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Vol. of Fluid
Gross characteristics of Fluid |
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| Explain how to do a compression smear. |
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- Expel contents of aspiration onto middle of slide.
- Gently place a second slide at right angle to the first slide
- The spreader slide is quickly and smoothly slid across the prep slide
- Downward pressure should not be placed on the spreader slide. (Excessive cell rupturing)
- Modification (Rotate second slide 45 degrees and lift upward) |
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| True or False. A wedge smear and a blood smear are done the same? |
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| What stain gives excellent nuclear detail and Cytoplasmic detail? |
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