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J Vet Sci. 2007 Sep;8(3):229-236 |
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Retrospective study of canine cutaneous tumors in Korea
Bidur Pakhrin1, Min-Soo Kang1, Il-Hong Bae1, Mi-Sun Park1, Hyang Jee1, Mi-Hyeon You1, Jae-Hoon Kim2, Byung-Il Yoon3, Yang-Kyu Choi4, Dae-Yong Kim1,* |
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1Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
2Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cheju National University, Jeju 690-756, Korea
3School of Veterinary Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 200-701, Korea
4Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, Korea
* daeyong@snu.ac.kr |
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Over the 42 month period from January 2003 to June
2006, a total of 2,952 canine biopsy specimens were
received from the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital
of Seoul National University and from veterinary practitioners
across the nation. Out of these, 748 (25.34%) cases were
diagnosed as canine cutaneous tumors in the Department
of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine,
Seoul National University, Korea. Thirty-eight different
types of cutaneous tumors were identified and categorized
into epithelial and melanocytic tumors (56.95%), mesenchymal
tumors (38.90%), and hematopoietic tumors (4.14%)
located in the skin. Among these, 69.25% were benign and
30.74% were malignant. The top ten most frequently
diagnosed cutaneous tumors were epidermal and follicular
cysts (12.70%), lipoma (11.36%), mast cell tumors (8.82%),
cutaneous histiocytoma (7.49%), basal cell tumors (6.82%),
sebaceous gland adenoma (6.68%), sebaceous gland
hyperplasia (5.08%), hepatoid gland adenoma (3.61%),
apocrine adenocarcinoma (3.07%), and fibroma (2.81%),
in order of prevalence. They comprised 68.45% of all
cutaneous tumors. These top ten cutaneous tumors were
distributed on the trunk (30.08%), head and neck
(20.9%), extremities (19.14%), anal and perianal area
(8.59%), and tail (3.91%). The age of the dogs with the ten
most frequent tumors had a mean age of 8.3 years, with a
range of 2 months to 19 years. When all types of tumors
were considered together in the entire population, there
was no difference in incidence according to sex.
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