Restrospective study of skin neoplasm in dogs diagnosed by histopathology at La Salle University (1999-2003)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to made a retrospective analysis of skin neoplasm in dogs, which was found at La Salle University during a period of five years. This study was made with data’s given by the histopathology and diagnostic area of La Salle University located at Bogotá, Colombia. The register record has the following five characteristics: diagnostic, sex, age, breed, malice and tumor localization. The cases were grouped based in type of neoplasm to determined their characteristics and behavior of this pathologies. During this period accumulated 192 cases in total. The average age of the patients was 6,5 years, it was found that Boxer was the most injury breed with a 19,1% (32 dogs), following the Labrador with 13% (26 dogs) and Poodle with 15% (22 dogs); the males also was the most injury with 58% (108 dogs). The tumors that had the major incidence were the Mast cell tumor (26,2% in 2003 and 20% in 2002) and the Histiocytoma (12,3% in 2003 and 10% in 2002) the other neoplasm that appears in this study was the Lipoma, Trichoepithelioma, Squamous cell carcinoma and Papilloma.