Table 1.
Selected hematology and serum biochemistry results from a dog with thymoma-associated lymphocytosis and presumed paraneoplastic hypercalcemia.
| Analyte | Unit | Referring veterinarian |
KSVDL |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 0 | Day 59 | RI | Day 73 | Day 85 | RI | ||
| Hematology | |||||||
| HCT | L/L | 0.45 | 0.47 | 0.37–0.55 | 0.40 | 0.38 | 0.41–0.59 |
| WBC | ×109/L | 20.6* | 16.4 | 8.0–17.0 | 16.5 | 13.8 | 4.3–13.6 |
| Lymph | ×109/L | 9.8* | 8.8* | 1.0–4.8 | 10.1 | 5.9 | 0.8–4.3 |
| Basophil | ×109/L | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.0–0.4 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0–0.1 |
| Biochemistry | |||||||
| Albumin | g/L | 40 | – | 25–44 | 40 | 40 | 32–42 |
| Ca | mmol/L | 3.12 | – | 2.20–2.94 | 14.2 | 15.4 | 9.5–11.2 |
| Free Ca | mmol/L | – | – | – | 1.62 | 1.57 | No RI |
Ca = calcium; HCT = hematocrit; KSVDL = Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (Manhattan, KS); Lymph = lymphocyte; RI = reference interval; WBC = white blood cell. Dash (–) indicates no results available. * Analyte flagged by analyzer and should be interpreted as minimum concentration.