Some features of the cats’ stomach lymph nodes in age aspect in a group from 0 to 5 months

The purpose of research is to study the features of the topography and morphometry of gastric lymph nodes in cats aged 0-5 months. Tasks: to study the features of the extraorganic lymphatic bed of the stomach at the age of 0-5 months; describe the left and right gastric lymph node, duodenal lymph node, splenic lymph node. The study was carried out on the basis of the Altai State Agrarian University, from January to September 2021. The objects of the study were stomachs, gastric lymph nodes from 10 she-cats and 10 he-cats aged 0-5 months of the British breed, Scottish breed, outbred. The following were carried out: registration of animals in the Registration Book, pathological anatomical autopsy according to the Shor method, description of the topography of the lymph nodes, photography, morphometric studies. 40 % of she-cats had 4 lymph nodes at once, 10 % did not have more than one. In he-cats, the presence of 3 lymph nodes at once predominates. When studying the lymph nodes of the stomach separately, the gastric lymph node in she-cats is recorded in 90 % of cases of a round shape, in he-cats in 70 % of a fusiform shape, approximately the same size. Duodenal lymph node: in she-cats - 60 %, in he-cats - 20 %. There is a new form - diamond-shaped. It is rare in he-cats. In 40 % of cases splenic lymph node was found in both he-cats and she-cats. In he-cats, the size of the lymph node is much larger.