Roe Doe Liver Issue

[kieran222]

Shot roe doe with a very strange liver. The doe was not much more than skin and bone, probably several years old weighed 28lbs. Glands didn't indicate any issues, the inner skin around the kidneys was brown/orange. The liver was discoloured, light and dark patches but didn't look like liver fluke from when I have seen it before.
The liver and attached growth were about the size of a half a football.
Anyone seen anything like this before?

 

[South of the M4]

Likely to be a tumour.
Ditch the carcass, sounds like it was affecting the whole animal, if not with a secondary tumour elsewhere but in general fitness and condition terms.

 

[Buchan]

I'd go with tumout too. Bin the carcass just because it's probably in no fir state to eat rathert han any risk of eating tumour

 

[kieran222]

Thanks for the feedback, I have disposed of the carcase.

 

[kieran222]

I'd go with tumout too. Bin the carcass just because it's probably in no fir state to eat rathert han any risk of eating tumour

Would the yellow staining in the membrane around the fillets be as a result of liver failure/jaundice?

 

[Buchan]

Would the yellow staining in the membrane around the fillets be as a result of liver failure/jaundice?

Possibly, but you'd probably have a yellowish tinge to all tissues. I've seen thi sin poor caracases too, butnever been sure why

 

[Ben Dearg]

Shot roe doe with a very strange liver. The doe was not much more than skin and bone, probably several years old weighed 28lbs. Glands didn't indicate any issues, the inner skin around the kidneys was brown/orange. The liver was discoloured, light and dark patches but didn't look like liver fluke from when I have seen it before.
The liver and attached growth were about the size of a half a football.
Anyone seen anything like this before?

 

[Ben Dearg]

Probably a primary liver tumour. Research in the 1990's found that
"Between January 1992 and March 1994 the geographical distribution and prevalence of hepatocellular tumours in roe deer in Britain was studied.
The highest prevalence was found in north east England and in the east of Scotland.
An as yet unidentified dietary factor is thought to have been involved in the development of these tumours."

These tumour cases were/are predominantly found in roe inhabiting large scale commercial Sitka/Norway spruce plantations such as the Scotland/England border country.
(From memory,) the research suggested one might expect to find one of these liver tumours in every 600 roe deer shot in these forests.

 

[Matt Roberts]

I had something similar the other day. Carcass weight was representative and no other indicators bar this big hard tumour and two smaller ones on the liver. Carcass did not enter the food chain.

 

[Ben Dearg]

This is 'probably' the same type of tumour - although the main association is with conifer plantations they can occur anywhere