Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Sheltie dog with multiple unusual tissue growths and spleen tumor
By Cubillos, Claudette C et al.·Published in Tierarztliche Praxis. Ausgabe K, Kleintiere/Heimtiere·2018·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: [Multiple choristoma and a myelolipoma in a Sheltie].
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Plain-English summary
An 11-year-old female Sheltie was brought to the vet because she wasn't eating and her belly was getting bigger. An ultrasound showed a large cystic mass in her abdomen, along with other cystic lesions in her liver and kidney. After surgery to remove the mass, tests revealed it was a myelolipoma (a type of benign tumor) in her spleen, along with some unusual tissue growths in her liver and kidney. The dog was treated successfully, and her symptoms improved after the surgery.
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Abstract
An 11-year-old female Sheltie was presented with inappetence and a progressive increase in abdominal distention. Abdominal ultrasound revealed a large cystic mass in the midabdomen and cystic lesions in the right liver lobe and in the caudal pole of the left kidney. Histopathologic examination of the resected tissue revealed a myelolipoma of the spleen, dispersed splenic tissue in the liver and dispersed uterine and salpinx tissues in the kidney. This report describes the clinical, ultrasonographic and computed tomographic features and the results of histopathology. In addition to the abnormally large and cystic myelolipoma of the spleen, the great number of choristomas is remarkable, which has not previously been documented in a dog.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29898481/