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 Volume 14 (1):1-7, 2010. Redacted 2017.


Case study: Ectopic pregnancy, multicentric leiomyoma and mammary carcinoma in a German Shepherd.

 

Dengues EG, Amarilla SP, Pangrazio KK, Cino Ozuna AG, Avalos ARD.

 

Department of Veterinary Pathology, National University of Asunción (FCV-UNA), Paraguay.


ABSTRACT

Dengues EG, Amarilla SP, Pangrazio KK, Cino Ozuna AG, Avalos ARD., Ectopic pregnancy, multicentric leiomyoma and mammary carcinoma in a German Shepherd, Onl J Vet Res 14 (1):1-7, 2010. Ectopic pregnancy is an embryonic implantation which occurs outside the uterine cavity.  Although this condition is well described in humans, it is rarely diagnosed in animals.  A 10 year-old crossbred German Shepherd which had had a normal birth 5 months previously presented with respiratory distress and breast tumor recurrence. Radiography revealed mineralized fetal skeletons in the abdominal cavity. Three encapsulated masses attached to the omentum, with mummified fetuses were found and removed. No evidence of rupture, adhesion to the serosal surface of the uterine or congenital anatomical abnormalities was found but multicentric uterine leiomyoma and  a mammary complex type carcinoma were observed.

 

Key words: dog, ectopic pregnancy, abdominal implantation, leiomyoma, mammary carcinoma.


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