A castrated 9-year-old intact male boerboel cross-breed dog was presented with a month-longhistory of stranguria. On physical examination, a mass was noted at the caudal extremity of the os penis. Haematology, serum chemistry and urinalysis were all unremarkable. Abdominal and urethral ultrasound demonstrated an enlarged bladder and a dilated urethra, whichwas followed to the caudal extremity o...

Vulvovaginectomy and neo-urethrostomy were performed in a 9-year-old German shepherd dog following a diagnosis of infiltrative vulvar and vestibulovaginal haemangiosarcoma. The dog was presented for intermittent vulvar haemorrhage over a 3-month period. On examination the vulva and vestibulovagina were distended and firm. Vaginal discharge and fine needle aspiration cytology detected anaplastic...

A clinical case of haemangiosarcoma of the spleen and liver in a male mixed breed dog, of age 10 years and 8 months, weighing 8 kg, is presented. The clinical signs were general and noncharacteristic. Initially, the disease was diagnosed by ultrasonography and blood laboratory investigations. Ultimately, the type of the growth was determined by a histological examination of a spleen specimen. T...

In order to assess the relevance of canine splenic pathology, to emphasise the differential diagnostic criteria among splenic haematoma, haemangioma and haemangiosarcoma, and to focus on the recently proposed classification of canine splenic fibrohistiocytic nodules (FHN), a retrospective study was carried out on HE-stained sections from formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded samples from 109 spl...