INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 1

Therapeutic management of transmissible venereal tumor in nasal cavity of a dog

  • Author:
  • Arpit Tyagi1,, Richa Arora2, Sheikh Firdous Ahmad2, Niddhi Arora
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 160 to 161

1Ph. D. Scholar, Department of Veterinary Medicine, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly

2Ph. D. Scholar, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly

College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT), Pantnagar-263145 (Uttarakhand)

*Corresponding author. E-mail: atyagi2007@gmail.com

Online published on 5 November, 2018.

Abstract

A male Golden retriever dog was presented with history of profuse bleeding from right nostril with mild hard swelling over the right nares. Transmissible veneral tumor (TVT) in nasal cavity was diagnosed after cytological examination of nasal discharge with numerous discrete spherical nuclei with chromatin granules and multiple cytoplasmic vacuolizations. Treatment with Vincristine sulfate resulted in complete resolution and recovery.

Keywords

Dog, nasal cavity, transmissible venereal tumor