Abstract
BackgroundTracheal tumors are rarely diagnosed in veterinary medicine and the majority of tracheal neoplasia reported in adult dogs are malignant. Intratracheal lipoma has not been previously reported in the veterinary literature.Case presentationA 7-year-old Briard dog was evaluated for inspiratory dyspnoea and an inspiratory wheeze. Cervical radiographs and tracheoscopic examination revealed an intratracheal mass that was surgically removed. The dog has been asymptomatic after the surgery.ConclusionsBased on histopathology, the mass was diagnosed as lipoma. To the authors‘ knowledge, this is the first published report of an intratracheal lipoma in the veterinary literature.
Highlights
Tracheal tumors are rarely diagnosed in veterinary medicine and the majority of tracheal neoplasia reported in adult dogs are malignant
Tracheal neoplasia is infrequently encountered in domestic animals and humans; the majority of which are malignant [1, 2]
Tracheal tumours reported in dogs and cats include adenocarcinoma, carcinoma, extramedullary plasmacytoma, leiomyoma, fibrosarcoma, mast cell tumour, rhabdomyosarcoma and squamous cell carcinoma [5,6,7,8,9,10]
Summary
Tracheal tumors are rarely diagnosed in veterinary medicine and the majority of tracheal neoplasia reported in adult dogs are malignant. The incidence of tracheal tumours in dogs and cats is not known but in human medicine the reported annual incidence ranges from 0.142 to 0.27 per 100,000 people [3, 4]. Dogs with an obstructing tracheal tumour typically present with clinical signs of inspiratory dyspnoea,
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