Online Veterinary Pathology Atlas

The Online Veterinary Pathology Atlas consists in an alternative approach to learning that uses modern information technologies to provide a new, laid-back and interactive attitude towards study and research. What you see here is the result of a selection of images taken from the archives of the Veterinary Medicine Faculty, at Lisbon (Portugal) as well as from the private collections of some of the teaching staff at this institution. This site also features some images that were given to us for this exact purpose and for which we are extremely grateful.
All featured images illustrate clinical, necropsy, slaughter and histopathology findings. The selection was conducted according to primary subjects of interest in Veterinary Pathology and guided by a well-defined purpose to facilitate self-learning by Veterinary Medicine students as well as promoting the development of their taste for necropsy and histopathology-based diagnosis.
It is also our goal to provide an interactive platform for continuing education, where clinical cases of practical interest can be presented and explained to all veterinary practitioners and/or enthusiasts, in order to improve their comprehension and interpretation of both macroscopic and microscopic features associated with various conditions.

6th edition February 2016

Maria da Conceição Peleteiro – Veterinary Doctor, Professor of Anatomic Pathology – Pathology Section, Department of Animal Health at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon. European College of Veterinary Pathologists Diplomate.

Rute Noiva – Veterinary Doctor, PhD in Veterinary Science, Pathology Resident – Pathology Section, Department of Health at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon (designer of the 2011 and 2016 editions).

Esmeralda Delgado – Veterinary Doctor, Auxiliary Professor – Surgery Section, responsible for the ophthalmology specialty consults at the Teaching Hospital, Department of Clinics at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Lisbon.

Ana Mafalda Lourenço – Veterinary Doctor, Auxiliary Professor – Clinics Section, responsible for the dermatology specialty consults at the Teaching Hospital, Department of Clinics at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon.

Jorge de Jesus Correia - Veterinary Doctor, Auxiliary Professor – Pathology Section, Department of Animal Sanity at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon.

Hugo Pissarra – Veterinary Doctor, Master’s Degree by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Pathology Resident – Pathology Section, Department of Animal Sanity at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon.

Tânia Carvalho – Veterinary Doctor, PhD in Veterinary Science, Post-doctoral Scholarship, Head of the Histology and Pathology Laboratory of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon.

Bárbara McMahill – Veterinary Doctor, PhD in Comparative Pathology (University of Davis, Califórnia, USA), Consultant for IDEXX Laboratories, Wyoming, USA.

Mário Pinho – Veterinary Doctor, Auxiliary Professor – Histology Section, Department of Morphology and Function at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon.

Luís Quintino – Veterinary Doctor, Research Assistant, CNS Gene Therapy, Wallenberg Neurocentrum (BMC), Sölvegatan 17, 22184 Lund, Sweden (continuing addition of images to the initial platform and 2003 edition).

João Sacadura Orvalho – Veterinary Doctor, Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine CVIM (Cardiology), University of California, Veterinary Medical Center - San Diego10435 Sorrento Valley Rd., Suite 101, San Diego, CA 92121, EUA (creator of this platform in 2001 in its original form).

The following is a list f all the images that were provided by the respective authors to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and later used in the creation of the Online Veterinary Pathology Atlas.
A list of the hardware and software components used is also provided.

National Laboratory of Veterinary Investigation Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária (L.N.I.V.):

(Cardiovascular System)
cardio003_ing.htm, cardio019_ing.htm, cardio022_ing.htm, cardio023_ing.htm, cardio027_ing.htm, cardio030_ing.htm, cardio034_ing.htm, cardio036_ing.htm, cardio038_ing.htm, cardio040_ing.htm, cardio041_ing.htm, cardio042_ing.htm, cardio053_ing.htm.

(Digestive Tract)
digest044_ing.htm, digest045_ing.htm, digest050_ing.htm, digest076_ing.htm, digest077_ing.htm, digest079_ing.htm, digest080_ing.htm, digest081_ing.htm, digest086_ing.htm, digest097_ing.htm, digest111_ing.htm, digest115_ing.htm, digest116_ing.htm, digest119_ing.htm, digest120_ing.htm, digest121_ing.htm, digest123_ing.htm, digest124_ing.htm, digest125_ing.htm, digest127_ing.htm, digest128_ing.htm, digest130_ing.htm, digest131_ing.htm, digest132_ing.htm, digest133_ing.htm, digest134_ing.htm, digest136_ing.htm.

(Female Genital Apparatus)
genf004_ing.htm, genf005_ing.htm, genf014_ing.htm.

(Hematolymphopoietic Organs)
linf001_ing.htm, linf002_ing.htm, linf019_ing.htm, linf020_ing.htm, linf021_ing.htm, linf022_ing.htm, linf023_ing.htm, linf026_ing.htm, linf045_ing.htm, linf046_ing.htm, linf047_ing.htm, linf048_ing.htm, linf049_ing.htm.

(Liver and Biliary Tract)
figad001_ing.htm, figad016_ing.htm, figad022_ing.htm, figad023_ing.htm, figad031_ing.htm, figad034_ing.htm, figad035_ing.htm, figad036_ing.htm, figad038_ing.htm, figad048_ing.htm, figad051_ing.htm, figad052_ing.htm, figad056_ing.htm, figad059_ing.htm, figad062_ing.htm, figad063_ing.htm.

(Locomotor Apparatus)
loc005_ing.htm.

(Peritoneum and Retroperitoneum)
perito005_ing.htm, perito016_ing.htm, perito017_ing.htm, perito020_ing.htm, perito021_ing.htm.

(Respiratory Apparatus)
resp003_ing.htm, resp005_ing.htm, resp006_ing.htm, resp007_ing.htm, resp008_ing.htm, resp010_ing.htm, resp012_ing.htm, resp018_ing.htm, resp019_ing.htm, resp020_ing.htm, resp021_ing.htm, resp044_ing.htm, resp045_ing.htm, resp046_ing.htm, resp049_ing.htm, resp050_ing.htm, resp054_ing.htm, resp055_ing.htm, resp056_ing.htm, resp057_ing.htm, resp059_ing.htm, resp060_ing.htm, resp061_ing.htm, resp062_ing.htm, resp064_ing.htm, resp065_ing.htm, resp067_ing.htm, resp068_ing.htm, resp074_ing.htm, resp081_ing.htm, resp083_ing.htm.

(Urinary Apparatus)
urin017_ing.htm, urin018_ing.htm, urin033_ing.htm, urin041_ing.htm, urin044_ing.htm, urin047_ing.htm, urin072_ing.htm, urin073_ing.htm, urin074_ing.htm, urin075_ing.htm, urin077_ing.htm.

Professor. Doutora Lucília Ferreira:

(Liver and Biliary Tract)
figad045_ing.htm.

(Urinary Apparatus)
urin026_ing.htm, urin027_ing.htm, urin028_ing.htm, urin029_ing.htm, urin030_ing.htm.

Professor Doutor Miguel Saraiva Lima:

(Digestive Tract)
digest053_ing.htm.

(Respiratory Apparatus)
resp048_ing.htm.

Dr. Ana Souto e Silva:

(Male Genital Apparatus)
genm022_ing.htm.

Dr. Nuno Marques Pereira:

(Hematolymphopoietic Organs)
linf028_ing.htm.

Hardware and Software used to create and edit this Atlas:

The first computer used to create and edit this Atlas was a laptop computer 2,4 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 40GB hardrive.
To take microscopy photographs, an Olympus DP11 Digital Photomicroscope camera, attached to an Olympus BX 51 Microscope was used.
The Prime Film Scanner 1800i was the primary slide digitalizer employed.
Text edition programs used: MicrosoftTM Office Word (97 and 2000) and MicrosoftTM Notepad 98.
Image edition programs used: Adobe Photoshop Professional Edition, Exif Viwer ver. 1.1.01E, Presto! Page Manager ver.4.00.06.
HTML Editors/WebPage Software used: MicrosoftTM Front Page 2000 and AdobeTM Page Maker, AdobeTM Macromedia DreamweaverTM MX and Netscape Composer 7.1.
Internet Explorer (6 to 8), Netscape Navigator 7.1, Mozilla Firefox 3.6.9 and Google Chrome were employed in the preview of all htm files.

The authors would like to show their acknowledgment:

First and foremost to José Fernando de Costa Durão, Jubilated Professor, founder of the photographic archive of the Laboratory of Anatomic Pathology and its primary contributor, to this day.

To all the unnamed contributors to this project, past and present, for the collection and submission of images to the Laboratory of Anatomic Pathology of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lisbon Technical University.

To Professor José Ferreira da Silva, for his collaboration in image collection.

To the National Laboratory of Veterinary Investigation, for authorizing the reproduction of slides provided by their Pathology Services to the archives of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Lisbon, throughout the years.

To Professors Lucília Ferreira and Miguel Saraiva Lima, and to Drs. Ana Souto e Silva and Nuno Marques Pereira for images, so generously, provided.

To the (unfortunately) late Professor Eduardo Marques Fontes for all his availability and interest regarding this project as well as the informatics expertise that made its creation possibility.

To Professor Fernando Bernardo and Dr. Augusto Gaspar for kindly providing the equipment required to digitalize photos taken prior to 2007.

To Professor Yolanda Vaz for all the technical support related to the publishing of this Atlas in the World Wide Web.

To Drs. Rita Mendes and Iolanda Gomes for providing images of sheep afflicted with the Blue Tongue Virus, from Chaganças, Alenquer, Ribatejo Oeste (Portugal).

To Dr. Nelson Benevides for supplying ruminant necropsy photos, taken during his training period in Production Animal Medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, at Lisbon.