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Table 1 Description of female dogs with mammary tumors; mammary glands with tumor and tumor size; fine-needle aspiration cytology and histological diagnosis of the mammary tumors.

From: Survey radiography and computerized tomography imaging of the thorax in female dogs with mammary tumors

Dog description

Mammary glands with tumor and tumor size

Fine-needle aspiration cytology

Time between tumor identification and surgical removal

Histological analysis

Case 1

34 kg-13.8-year-old German Shepherd

(10 y spayed)

Left CrT and CT (T2 - ulcerated)

mammary carcinoma

2 mo

mammary carcinoma

Case 2

8 kg-11.10-year-old crossbred

(intact)

Left CrA (T1)

Left CrA - adenoma mammary

9 mo

Left CrA - mammary carcinoma

Case 3

13.4 kg-10.7-year-old crossbred

(7 y spayed)

Right I (T2 - ulcerated)

Left CA (T1)

Right I - mammary carcinoma;

Left CA inflammatory process

3 mo

Right I - mammary carcinoma and regional lymph node metastases; Left CA -trichoepithelioma

Case 4

11.4 kg-9-year Poodle

(intact)

Left CrA, CA and I (T2); Right CA (T1)

Left CrA, CA and I - secretory mammary carcinoma

Right CA - absent neoplasia

9 mo

Left CrA, CA and I - mammary adenoma;

Right CA - absent neoplasia

Case 5

9.1 kg-9.4-year-old crossbred

(intact)

Right CA (T1)

mammary carcinoma

3 mo

mammary carcinoma

Case 6

3 kg-5.8-year-old Yorkshire

(3 mo spayed)

Right CrT (T1)

mammary carcinoma

9 mo

mammary carcinoma

Case 7

3.5 kg-7-year-old crossbred

(intact)

Left CT and CrA (T1); Right CrA (T1)

Right CrA and Left CrA - malignant mixed tumor; Left CT - epidermal cyst

7 mo

Right CrA and Left CrA - malignant mixed tumor; Left CT - epidermal cyst

Case 8

13 kg-9-year-old Poodle

(intact)

All Left mammary glands (T2); Right CrA and I (T2)

Left mammary glands - mammary carcinoma;

Right CrA and I - malignant mixed tumor

7 mo

Left mammary glands - mammary carcinoma;

Right CrA and I -adenocarcinoma

Case 9

7 kg-8.6-year-old

crossbred

(intact)

Left I (T1)

adenocarcinoma

1 y

benign mixed tumor

Case 10

6.5 kg-8-year-old crossbred

(intact)

Right CA and I (T1)

Right CA and I - malignant mixed tumor

3 mo

Right CA and I -malignant mixed tumor

Case 11

22.6 kg-6.8-year-old Cocker Spaniel (intact)

Right I (T1)

mammary carcinoma

1 y

mammary carcinoma

Case 12

5.8 kg-9-year-old Poodle (intact)

Right CT (T1)

mammary carcinoma

3 mo

mammary carcinoma

Case 13

16.7 kg-6.3-year-old Dachshund

(intact)

Left CT (T3)

mammary carcinoma

4 mo

mammary carcinoma

Case 14

31 kg-8.5-year-old Boxer

(intact)

Right CA (T3)

mammary carcinoma

2 mo

malignant mixed tumor

Case 15

14.1 kg-14.7-year-old Poodle

(intact)

Right CT (T3)

mammary carcinoma

7 mo

papillary cystadenocarcinoma

Case 16

3.6 kg-14.10-year-old crossbred

(intact)

Right CA (T1), Right I (T2);

Left CrA (T1), Left I (T1)

Left CrA and I - malignant mixed tumor; Right CA -

secretory adenoma

1 y

malignant mixed tumor

Case 17

21.5 kg-14-year-old crossbred

(intact)

Right CrA and CA (T3 - ulcerated); left I (T2)

malignant mixed tumor

3 mo

malignant mixed tumor

Case 18

3.4 kg-5-year-old crossbred

(intact)

Left CA (T1)

mammary carcinoma

9 mo

mammary carcinoma

Case 19

11.2 kg-8-year-old

Cocker Spaniel

(intact)

Right I (T1)

mammary carcinoma

1 y

mammary tubular carcinoma

Case 20

27 kg-6.5-year-old Akita

(intact)

Right CA (T3)

mammary adenoma

4 mo

mammary adenocarcinoma

Case 21

10.7 kg-13-year-old crossbred

(8 y spayed and received contraceptive)

Right CrA (T2); Left CrA

(T1)

malignant mixed tumor

2 y

malignant mixed tumor

  1. Cranial thoracic - CrT; Caudal thoracic - CT; Cranial abdominal - CrA; Caudal Abdominal - CA; Inguinal -I; T1 - tumor < 3 cm maximum diameter, T2 - tumor 3-5 cm maximum diameter, T3 - tumor > 5 cm maximum diameter.