Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Border Collie with corneal cancer causing eye cloudiness
By Busse, Claudia et al.·Published in Veterinary ophthalmology·2008·Animal Health Trust, United Kingdom·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Corneal squamous cell carcinoma in a Border Collie.
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- dog
Plain-English summary
A 6-year-old female Border Collie was brought to the vet because her left eye had a cloudy spot that had been getting worse over the past six months. After performing surgery to remove the affected tissue, the vet found that she had squamous cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer that can occur in the eye. Fortunately, five months after the surgery, there have been no signs of the cancer returning. This case is notable as it is the first report of this type of cancer in a dog's cornea in the UK.
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Abstract
A 6-year-old, female, spayed Border Collie was presented to the Unit of Comparative Ophthalmology at the Animal Health Trust with a 6-month history of a progressive nonpainful opacity of the left cornea. A keratectomy was performed and the tissue submitted for histopathology. The diagnosis was squamous cell carcinoma. There has been no recurrence of the neoplasm to date (5 months). Canine corneal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) has not been reported previously in the UK.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18190354/