Can clinical signs,clinicopathological findings and abdominal ultrasonography predict the site of histopathological abnormalities of the alimentary tract in cats?

Valerie Freiche, Mathieu R Faucher and Alexander J German

J Feline Med Surg 2016; 18: 118–128.

Readers should note that the published version of the article ‘Can clinical signs, clinicopathological findings and abdominal ultrasonography predict the site of histopathological abnormalities of the alimentary tract in cats?’ contains some inconsistencies between results reported in the Abstract and in the Results section itself. The authors apologise for the errors.

Text within the Results subsection of ‘Serum fPL concentration’ on pages 124 and 125 should have read as follows (changes to the original text appear in bold):

Pancreatic histopathological abnormalities were present in 1/3 cats with a positive pancreas-specific lipase concentration, and the changes were inflammatory in nature. However, pancreatic histopathological abnormalities were also present in 6/8 cats with a negative fPL concentration, with the changes being consistent with inflammation, neoplasia and nodular hyperplasia in two cases each. Further, all three of the cats with increased serum fPL concentration also had intestinal and hepatic histopathological abnormalities.