Urinary Tract Disease Part 2: Cytology of the Urinary Tract

In this session, we will review cytology of the kidney, bladder, and prostate. Urinary tract disease is extremely common in small animal practice and encompasses a variety of infectious, inflammatory, and neoplastic conditions, many of which are amenable to minimally invasive cytologic evaluation. This session will focus on the most common conditions, including renal lymphoma and carcinoma, transitional cell carcinoma, polyps, prostatic hyperplasia and neoplasia and bacterial infections of the urinary tract. After this session, you will have an appreciation of the indications for urinary tract cytology, the safety profile of sample collection, and the strengths and limitations of cytology as a diagnostic tool for evaluation of the most common lesions.