Hi, The symptoms are lymph nodes are severely enlarged, vomiting, light-colored stool, weight loss. RBCs and WBCs are within normal.
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With enlarged lymph nodes with no signs of a current bacterial infection (increased WBC count) I would be suspicious of lymphoma here. I would recommend that you get a lymph node fine-needle aspirate (collection of cells from the lymph nodes with syringe and needle) and sending it off for analysis. Lymphoma can cause vomiting, weight loss and normal WBC and you don't always see an anemia (low RBC count) associated with Lymphoma.
I would also recommend an abdominal ultrasound for kitty to looks at the intestinal lining for any abnormalities there as well. The light colored stool suggests that the stool contains an abnormally large amount of fat. Only one condition comes to mind to cause this and that is Steatitis (inflammation of adipose "fatty" tissue) or "yellow fat disease", but this isn't seen that much anymore since pets are on commercial foods, because it is mainly caused by feeding cats a strict diet of tuna or fish which causes a Vit E deficiency. I would discuss this with your veterinarian as a possible cause as well if your pet was on a strict fish diet.
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Knowing his age could be quite an important piece of information. The first step in his case would be to sample the lymph nodes by performing a fine needle aspiration. Chest and abdominal radiographs would be as well needed.
Multi centric lymphoma would be my first guess, but many other diseases are possible.
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IT could be lymphoma or a bile/liver disease, a sample of the lymph node should be sent to the lab in order to find out if it's lymphoma and in the meantime supportive treatment should be administer (anti emetics, fluids, antibiotics).
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