Year : 2011, Volume : 35, Issue : 1
First page : ( 89) Last page : ( 90)
Print ISSN : 0250-4758. Online ISSN : 0973-970X. Published online : 2011 June 1.

Pathology of canine mammary neoplasms

Jain Vipul¹, Raghunath M.¹, Gupta K.¹, Sood N.K.^1,*

¹Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, GADVASU, Ludhiana

*Corresponding author; email: nareshsood47@gmail.com

Received:  13  December,  2010; Accepted:  25  May,  2011.

Abstract

Clinical evaluation of canine mammary tumour cases presented at Small Animal Clinics, GADVASU, Ludhiana between April 2005 to May 2006 was done and a total of 37 cases were included in the present study. Out of which, 31 cases were surgically excised. Histopathology of all the cases was carried out and 64.52 % were found malignant neoplasms, 22.57 % benign neoplasms and 12.9% non neoplastic inflammatory conditions. Amongst the malignant tumours mixed mammary tumours were the most common tumour, whereas, lipoma was most common among the benign tumours.

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Keywords

Canine, Malignant, Mammary tumour, Mammary.

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