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Follicular thyroid carcinoma in an inbred family of mongrel dogs in Trinidad & Tobago

Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Thyroid tumors occur in many domestic species, but are most common in the dog, in which they are classified as follicular or medullary. During 2012-2016, we received tissue specimens or whole carcasses of 4 dogs with variable enlargement of the thyroid glands. The 2 males and 2 females were of mixed (mongrel) inbreeding, 3-4.5-y-old. All tumors had lobulated architecture forming follicular structures variably containing colloid. On immunohistochemistry of the tumors from 3 of the dogs, 2 were thyroglobulin positive, and all 3 were negative for calcitonin, confirming follicular thyroid carcinoma in 2 of the dogs. Thyroid carcinomas have not been reported previously in related mongrel dogs, to our knowledge.
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4402992291
FWCI: 0.259
Cites: 15
Cited by: 1
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