Digital trichoblastoma treated with electrochemotherapy in a dog

• Autor(a) principal: Dos Anjos, Denner Santos [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Rossi, Ygor Amaral, Magalhaes, Larissa Fernandes, Calazans, Sabryna Gouveia [UNESP], Fonseca-Alves, Carlos Eduardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vetreccr-2018-000671; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/195548
• topic: electroporation; bleomycin; Dogs; basal cell carcinoma

Canine trichoblastoma is a benign tumour derived from the trichoblastic epithelium, commonly affecting the head and neck and, less commonly, the limbs and trunk. Herein, the authors report a case of a dog with digital trichoblastoma successfully treated with electrochemotherapy (ECT). The dog received three sessions of ECT with systemic bleomycin. The tumour volume decreased throughout the ECT sessions, with a complete response after 81 days. The patient presented a disease-free survival of 700 days. ECT may be a better approach than surgery for digital trichoblastomas because it avoids amputating the digit and provides a good cosmetic result.