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Rhabdomyosarcoma (botryoid sarcoma) of the urinary bladder in a Maltese
Author(s) -
Takiguchi M.,
Watanabe T.,
Okada H.,
Kudo T.,
Yamada K.,
Yasuda J.,
Hashimoto A.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.2002.tb00072.x
Subject(s) - medicine , rhabdomyosarcoma , maltese , urinary bladder , metastasis , pathology , sarcoma , urinary system , immunohistochemistry , urology , cancer , linguistics , philosophy
A urinary bladder tumour was diagnosed in a two‐year‐old female Maltese with haematuria and pollakiuria on the basis of ultrasonography and pneumocystography findings. The mass was resected, and the bladder was preserved at surgery. Histological and immunohistochemical examination confirmed the tumour to be a rhabdomyosarcoma, which has rarely been reported in small breeds of dog. There was no recurrence of the tumour at the original site in the urinary bladder two months later, when the dog died due to metastasis to the liver. This is believed to be the first report of bladder rhabdomyosarcoma in a Maltese.