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300 cats, sent in for rabies diagnosis, which were obviously not infected, have been further examined with regard to their causes of disease and death. Traumata, uremia and panleucopenia have been observed most frequently. As expected, affections of the central nervous system often have been stated. The results of our investigations have been compared with autopsy statistics on rabies-unsuspected cats, published in literature. Furthermore the preliminary reports have been examined and compared with the anamnesis of 214 rabies-positive cats. The information of preliminary reports on rabies-negative cats and their pathological diagnosis has been discussed in the context of differential diagnosis.

40% or 116 of 350 patients with renal carcinoma had distant metastases at the time of hospital admission (M1, N0-4). Women fell ill less often than men did (3:7). 82 of 116 patients (71%) received nephrectomy primarily. Lethality within the first 30 days was 6%. Patients with nephrectomy survived longer than those without, women with nephrectomy survived longer than men. Patients with a grade II tumor survived longer than those with a grade III tumor. Palliative nephrectomy can therefore be recommended as treatment of choice, if the general condition of the patient allows it, the more so as there are no alternative ways of treatment.