_Lipoma._ Trasbot describes two fatty tumors in the liver of a bitch,
one of them as large as an infant’s head. It had a yellowish white
color, and had taken the place of the proper hepatic tissue.
_Malignant Tumors._ These are rather common. _Sarcomatous_ masses with
round and fusiform cells in a fibrous stroma; _encephaloid_ with a
delicate stroma and large alveoli filled with cells, and having a soft
brainlike consistency; _carcinoma_ with dense and thick fibrous stroma
and nests of cells in comparatively small numbers; and _epithelioma_
with flattened, cylindroid or other epithelial cells in masses often
affecting a tubular aggregation, are seen in different cases. Sometimes
apparently primary, they can more commonly be traced to pre-existing
centres of the same formation on the course of the portal vein or
elsewhere.
_Symptoms._ A gradual wasting and emaciation with a yellowish pallor of
the mucous membranes are characteristic. Trasbot gives the excessive
atrophy of the temporal and masseter muscles as pathognomonic. Ascites
is a usual complication. Enlargement of the liver, as shown by
percussion of the right hypochondrium, and, in case of flaccid abdomen,
by manipulation, and attendant signs of tenderness are corroborative.
Variability or loss of appetite, and vomiting is not uncommon, and in
case of primary or secondary deposits in other organs in the abdomen,
thorax or elsewhere, the symptoms resulting from functional derangement
of such organ may be found. Treatment is hopeless.