Synovİal sarcoma İn a dog

Abstract

A case of synovial sarcoma in left tarsal joint and metastases of lung at a 10-year-old male mixed breed dog was
described. Macroscopically, the tumour mass was 5x4x1.5 cm in size and nodules, 0.5-to-3 cm in size, were seen on the lungs. In
microscopical examination, the mass, composed of synovioblastic cells, was diagnosed as synovial sarcoma. Similar tumour cells
were seen in the lungs. Synovial sareoma is a rarely diagnosed neoplasm of
dog (5). It has been reported most eommonly in aged, large
breed male dogs, whieh affeets the stifle and elbow (4).
The tumour spread by loeal extension along fascial planes
and tendon sheats and by via vaseular ehannels is believed
to arise from primitiye mesenehymal preeursor eelIs
outside the synovial membrane of joints and bursae

Keywords

• Dog
• synovial sarcoma
• tmour

Bir köpekte sinovial sarkom

Abstract

10 yaşlı melez erkek köpeğin sol tarsal ekleminde gözlenen sinovial sarkom olgusu ve akciğer metastazları tanımlandı. Makroskobik olarak, sol tarsal eklem üzerindeki tümör kitlesi 5x4x1.5 cm ölçülerindeydi ve akciğer üzerinde 0.5-3 cm boyutlarında nodüller gözlendi. Mikroskobik incelemede, sinovioblastik hücrelerden oluştuğu gözlenen kitleye sinovial sarkom tanısı kondu. Benzer tümör hücreleri akciğerlerde de gözlendi. A case of synovial sarcoma in left tarsal joint and metastases of lung at a 10-year-old male mixed breed dog was
described. Macroscopically, the tumour mass was 5x4x1.5 cm in size and nodules, 0.5-to-3 cm in size, were seen on the lungs. In
microscopical examination, the mass, composed of synovioblastic cells, was diagnosed as synovial sarcoma. Similar tumour cells
were seen in the lungs. 

Keywords

• Köpek
• sinovial sarkom
• eklem

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