Abstract
A three-year-old neutered female ferret weighing 800 g was brought to our clinic with anorexia, nausea, and abdominal distension/pain. Clinical examination confirmed dehydration, hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia,intraperitoneal lymph node swelling, and splenomegaly. Abdominal X-ray findings suggested gastrointestinal obstruction. A laparotomy was performed. In a portion of the spleen, a mass was detected. Hardening of the pancreas, marked inflammation of fat around the pancreas, and pancreaticoduodenal lymph node swelling-related compression of a portion of the duodenum were observed. Histopathological examination of the extirpated spleen, pancreaticoduodenal lymph nodes, and left pancreatic lobe revealed extramedullary hematopoiesis in the spleen, reactive hyperplasia of the pancreaticoduodenal lymph nodes, and chronic pancreatitis. The clinical symptoms subsided the day after surgery. In the present case, chronic pancreatitis-related pancreaticoduodenal lymph node swelling may have led to obstruction of the digestive tract.
