Title: Tumors in Domestic Animals, 4th ed.
Editor: Donald J. Meuten
If you want to understand your animal’s cancer on a cellular level, this might be the book for you. Filled with black and white images, Tumors in Domestic Animals provides photos, radiographs, cross-sections, and pictures of cancer cells. This textbook is intended for veterinary pathologists, so it may be of limited use once you’ve received a diagnosis. But if you’re curious about what that tumor really looks like under the skin, this book will oblige you in detail.
Highlights about chondrosarcoma:
- In dogs, chondrosarcoma occurs most often in ribs, pelvis, and turbinates.
- Tumor mass is composed of modules that are usually soft and can be translucent, white, gray and bluish. In nasal passages, the tumor will destroy turbinates and fill the nasal cavity.
- Surgery can be effective in ribs and limbs; nasal tumors will recur and become more malignant with each recurrence.
- Metastatic rate in dogs is about 20%, although nasal tumors have a lower rate of metastasis than chondrosarcoma in other sites.
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