Sonographic And Histopathological Study Of Mammary  Tumours In Female Dogs

Sandeep Saharan; Prem Singh; Ajit Singh; R P Gupta; Ravi Dutt

doi:10.48165/

Authors

Sandeep Saharan Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology,Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Hisar – 125 004, Haryana (India)
Prem Singh Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology,Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Hisar – 125 004, Haryana (India)
Ajit Singh Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Hisar – 125 004, Haryana (India)
R P Gupta Department of Veterinary Pathology, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Hisar – 125 004, Haryana (India)
Ravi Dutt Department of Veterinary Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Hisar – 125 004, Haryana (India)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Dog, histopathology, malignant, mammary tumour, ultrasonography

Abstract

The study was conducted on mammary tumour in ten female dogs which were presented to the Veterinary Clinical Complex of the university. The female dogs were of different breeds with age ranging between 5.0 and 16.5 years (median age 10.7). The ultrasonographic images were used to evaluate the shape, size and echogenicity of mammary lesions. In ign tumours were homogenous in their internal echogenic pattern i.e. hypoechoic. Ultrasonograms of malignant tumour ike structure of variable sizes having hyperechoic boundary. Excisional biopsy was taken after the surgery of these cases. Of the clinical 10 cases, 6 were of benign whereas the rest cases were of malignant category. Due to the request of owners of the animals, surgeries were performed and tumours were confirmed by histopathology. There were four cases of adenocarcinoma, two cases each of benign mixed tumours and myoepithelioma and one case each of adenoma and myxoma. Skin sutures were removed after 12 days. Post-operativecarwas done antibiotics (ceftriaxone + tazobactum), analgesics (meloxicam), B complex and vitamin C injections for 5 days. The study suggested that ultrasonography alone is sufficient to diagnosebenign and malignant

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