Renal osteosarcoma in female dog: Case report

Abstract

Bone osteosarcomas are very common to find in small animals, but the osteosarcoma extra-osseous primary renal are not, because of that, relates on literature about it are rare. The propose of this college work was relate the case of a undefined female and middle-aged dog attended on a Rio de Janeiro state´s clinic who had a unexpected appearance of a renal osteosarcoma. The characteristic clinical symptoms of renal osteosarcoma are similar to the renal pathologies in general and doesn´t show specificity, for this reason, should be make complementary exams like ultrasonography, abdominal radiography and laboratorial exams for example, to help the diagnostic. The animal in case was submitted to a unilateral nephrectomy and for the purpose to diagnostic was made a histopathological exam on Veterinary laboratory tests - Veterinary Diagnosis. Little is known about the prognosis of this pathology, because there too many few relates on literature about the evolution of this kind of case, becoming hard to get a parameter about animal´s afterlife with a unexpected disease. Therefore, it´s possible to conclude the necessity of more searches about this case.