Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Dog with testicle cancer spreading to skin on lip
By Spugnini, E P et al.Ā·Published in Journal of the American Animal Hospital AssociationĀ·2000Ā·Department of Pathology and Experimental Veterinary Pathology, ItalyĀ·View original on PubMed ā
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Original publication title: Seminoma with cutaneous metastases in a dog.
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- dog
Plain-English summary
A 10-year-old Great Pyrenees was brought to the vet because he was not eating and had lost weight. The vet found that he was very thin and had a large sore on his lower lip, along with an enlarged right testicle. Tests showed that he had a type of cancer called seminoma that had spread to his skin. The recommended treatment included surgery to remove the affected areas and chemotherapy to help manage the cancer.
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Abstract
A 10-year-old Great Pyrenees was presented for anorexia and weight loss. On physical examination, the dog was emaciated and showed a large ulcerated lesion on the right lower lip in addition to an enlarged right testicle. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the testicle and surgical biopsy of the lip lesion were performed; the histopathological report was consistent with metastatic seminoma. The diagnostic and therapeutic approach in this unusual metastatic seminoma is presented and compared to the previous literature. A multimodality therapy consisting of surgery and chemotherapy is proposed for the clinical management of metastatic seminoma in dogs.
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