Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Dog with bone cancer spreading to eye before other organs
By Yoshikawa, Hiroto et al.·Published in The Journal of veterinary medical science·2008·Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Canada·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: A dog with osteosarcoma which metastasized to the eye months before metastasis to other organs.
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Plain-English summary
A 9-year-old male Shih Tzu was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, and had his front leg amputated followed by chemotherapy. During treatment, he developed severe eye problems and had to have his right eye removed, which was later found to have cancer that had spread from the original bone tumor. Unfortunately, the dog lived for only four more months after the eye surgery without further treatment. This case highlights how rare it is for osteosarcoma to spread to the eye before affecting other organs.
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Abstract
A 9-year-old male Shih Tzu with osteosarcoma had a forelimb amputation and underwent chemotherapy. During chemotherapy, the right eye was enucleated due to refractory glaucoma, and was diagnosed as anterior uveal malignant melanoma. The dog lived for 4 months after the enucleation without treatment. After the dog died, the mass in the eye was re-evaluated immunohistochemically, and it was diagnosed as metastasis of appendicular osteosarcoma. Metastasis of appendicular osteosarcoma to the anterior chamber is quite rare, and the clinical course which showed clinically detectable metastases to the eye before systemic multi-organ metastases was quite unique.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18772558/