Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Dog with chronic vaginal discharge found to have cervical
By Song, Sunhye et al.·Published in Frontiers in veterinary science·2025·VIP Animal Medical Center, South Korea·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Case Report: Hyperplastic cervical polyp with lipomatous differentiation in a dog.
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Plain-English summary
An 11-year-old female mixed-breed dog was brought in due to a chronic vaginal discharge. Imaging tests showed a fatty mass in her cervix, which was confirmed as a hyperplastic polyp (a type of growth) during surgery. The dog was also found to be very overweight, which may have contributed to the development of this unusual condition. After the ovariohysterectomy (spay surgery), the discharge resolved, and the dog was expected to recover well.
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Abstract
Uterine lesions containing adipose tissue are extremely rare in dogs, and cervical polyps are rarely reported in veterinary literature. This case report describes an 11-year-old intact female mixed-breed dog presenting with chronic vaginal discharge. Diagnostic imaging revealed a well-defined fat-attenuating mass in the cervix. The lesion appeared as a homogeneously hyperechoic intrauterine mass on ultrasonography and exhibited hypoattenuation with enhanced internal septa on computed tomography. Histopathological examination of specimens collected during ovariohysterectomy confirmed the presence of a hyperplastic polyp with prominent lipomatous differentiation arising from the cervix. The patient's marked obesity and hypertriglyceridemia suggested a possible role of metabolic imbalance in the lesion's development. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first veterinary report of canine lipomatous cervical polyps. This case expands the limited literature on adipose-containing uterine lesions in dogs and highlights the diagnostic value of multimodal imaging for their identification and characterization.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41200549/