Carcinoma of the Urethra of a Female Dog

Carcinoma of the urethra is a rare finding in both man and the dog. Sticker, Hutyra and Marek, ]oest, Nieberle and Cohrs, and Feldman, all of whom have reported on a large series of animal tumors, made no mention of carcinoma of the urethra in the dog. We were able to find no reference to a similar case in the veterinary medical literature. Carcinoma of the urethra is probably as rare an occurrence in man as it is in the dog. Menville reviewed the literature to 1935 and found only 149 cases of primary neoplasms of the female urethra. Carcinoma is less frequent in the male urethra than it is in. the female urethra. The most common neoplasm was the squamous-cell carcinoma, and the two most prevalent symptoms were urinary difficulty or retention and hematuria.