Weird whitetail liver growth

[Mavrykk]

I opened up a whitetail last night and found some nasty business growing on his liver. Can you help identify what it is?
Not sure if I should eat any of this animal or turn it into dog food.
At first glance it looks like ticks, but then upon closer inspection it looks like some sort or nasty

seaweed..

 

[powdahound76]

I wouldnt eat it or feed it to dogs unless someone who knows tells you its safe.

Would consider turning it in for testing.

Prolly can get another tag since that one is buggered.

Just showed it to a bunch surgeons.
“Oh damn” was the common response

 

[Threadcutter308]

I opened up a whitetail last night and found some nasty business growing on his liver. Can you help identify what it is?
Not sure if I should eat any of this animal or turn it into dog food.
At first glance it looks like ticks, but then upon closer inspection it looks like some sort or nastyView attachment 7970650 seaweed..

Probably what mine looks like.........

 

[powdahound76]

Probably what mine looks like.........

Thats not fatty liver or cirrhosis.
Yer thinkin this.

 

[Threadcutter308]

Thats not fatty liver or cirrhosis.
Yer thinkin this.
View attachment 7970674

No, this........

 

[powdahound76]

Also, several folk who know some things think it is likely a weird cancer.

Almost looks like a crazy exaggeration of rugae in the GI system.
Like a crazy stage 4 stomach cancer.

Was the deer’s stomach normal?

So fascinating to my pea brain.

 

[Jigstick]

That is gnarly. I work in a very active group of surgical oncologists. And I’ve never seen a human organ with cancer look that bad

 

[kthomas]

My wife works in pathology, I'll have to ask her. She loves this kind of stuff.

 

[wvfarrier]

My buddy, who is a internal med doc said it looks like some form of advanced cancer

 

[2aBaC̶a̶]

any chane this deer grazes on crops or downstream from something toxic?

 

[kthomas]

My wife says that it looks like cancer, nothing she's ever seen before. Says the organ doesn't even look like a liver, or any organ she's seen before. She only looked at it for a few seconds though.

 

[Im2bent]

Is this the typical hunting gear in your area?

 

[Islas82]

Whatever it is seems like you put that animal out of some misery.

 

[wvfarrier]

Did the deer appear healthy?

 

[RTH1800]

Throw your knife away.

 

[Im2bent]

in all seriousness thst looks like the inside of the deers stomach like so...

 

[powdahound76]

I have never seen the inside of one apparently?

Exactly what it is.

 

[acudaowner]

mmm kill it and grill it . lol

 

[RTH1800]

Could be ectopic stomach growth. Cancerous or otherwise.

 

[2aBaC̶a̶]

Tell me you didnt mistake and inside-out stomach for a liver?

 

[powdahound76]

Dang sure looks like a liver behind it.

Just thinking he maybe opened a stomach up too…..

Green bile all over it. Looks like that or gut-shot to hell….

And could be something all funky still, as rth1800 said.

 

[Mavrykk]

Also, several folk who know some things think it is likely a weird cancer.

Almost looks like a crazy exaggeration of rugae in the GI system.
Like a crazy stage 4 stomach cancer.

Was the deer’s stomach normal?

So fascinating to my pea brain.

All of the intestines looked normal.
Only other thing I noticed that was the lungs looked like they had large dark spots on them.. appeared to be blood clots deep in the tissue. Not sure if it was from breathing issues post gun shot or he was tripled vaxxed.

 

[2aBaC̶a̶]

The Secret Insides of a Deer Stomach

I'm starting this post off with a nice cute image of a fawn I took a few years ago because the following photos are frankly a little nasty....

www.twincitiesnaturalist.com

 

[akmike47]

I have no answer, I just want to be involved.


Seriously though it looks like stomach, the bottom where it's not long strands looks like tripe

 

[Conqueror]

That is definitively not cancer. Cancers don’t grow organized structures like that. I’m a surgeon. Agree it looks like stomach got opened inadvertently.

 

[Fig]

…and that’s just grass being digested. A liver does not have those mucosa.

 

[RTH1800]

It’s just inner stomach.

 

[AutoBolt308]

Tuberculosis?

Here in Michigan, in the lower north east there is an area where TB is common.

 

[supercorndogs]

That damn liver tuberculosis.

 

[cas6969]

That's the worst kind.

 

[supercorndogs]

When your liver starts to cough, you know about it.