Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Dog with nasal melanoma causing brain invasion and sudden blindness
By Lemetayer, Julie et al.·Published in The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne·2017·Department of Clinical Studies, Canada·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Primary intranasal melanoma with brain invasion in a dog.
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Plain-English summary
A 6-year-old male boxer was brought in with a dark, pus-like discharge from his nose and sudden blindness in both eyes. After performing an MRI, the veterinarian found that the dog had a primary nasal melanoma (a type of skin cancer) that had spread into the brain. Unfortunately, the condition was severe, and the dog was diagnosed with this cancer at necropsy, meaning he did not survive. There was no sign of the cancer spreading to other organs.
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Abstract
A 6-year-old castrated male boxer dog with right-sided dark purulent nasal discharge and acute bilateral blindness was diagnosed on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and then on necropsy with primary nasal malignant melanoma that extended into the brain, as well as concurrent ocular melanosis. There was no evidence of metastasis in other organs.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28373733/