Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Cat with metastatic squamous cell carcinoma affecting lungs and bones
By Dhaliwal, Ravinder S & Kufuor-Mensah, Eric·Published in Journal of feline medicine and surgery·2007·All Care Animal Referral Center, United States·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma in a cat.
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- cat
Plain-English summary
A 7-year-old spayed female Persian cat was brought in because she was unable to walk and had lost a lot of weight. X-rays showed a lung lesion and bone damage in her pelvis and shoulder. Unfortunately, the prognosis was poor, and the owner chose to euthanize her. A post-mortem exam confirmed that she had metastatic squamous cell carcinoma, which likely started in her lungs and spread to her bones and heart.
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Abstract
A 7-year-old, spayed female Persian cat was referred for evaluation of progressive paraplegia. The cat was thin, cachectic and paraplegic on presentation. The survey radiographs showed a left caudal pulmonary lesion and lytic skeletal lesions at the right iliac crest and left distal scapula. Due to a poor prognosis for complete recovery, the owner opted for euthanasia. Post-mortem examination revealed bilaterally small and irregular kidneys, lysis of the left iliac crest and left distal scapula and a dilated left ventricular lumen with a thin interventricular septum. Histologically, all the lesions were determined to be squamous cell carcinoma. It appears that the origin or the primary site of the malignancy in this case is pulmonary as cardiac and skeletal tissues are primarily mesenchymal in origin and are less likely to develop a primary epithelial malignancy. To the best of our knowledge, there is no description of cardiac or skeletal metastatic squamous cell carcinoma in a cat.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16859943/