CANINE CUTANEOUS HORN ALLEGEDLY ASSOCIATED WITH PAPILLOMAVIRUS: CASE REPORT
In the present clinical case the presence of cutaneous horn of 4 months of evolution in the phalanxof the left anterior limb in a 3-year-old French Bulldog canine is reported, the collective surgical ablation of asample (4.5 x 3.2 cm) of two Phalanges of the left anterior limb, which included skin, hair and nail, formacroscopic examination and excisional biopsy of the phalanges. Histopathological study determines as apresumptive cause the canine papillomavirus, a lack of confirmation by immunohistochemistry, PCR and / ormolecular sequencing. The development of papillomavirus-induced lesions in adult dogs is often associatedwith the immunosuppression of underlying diseases or drugs, such as corticosteroids and cyclosporine,however in this case it did not present previous diseases or ingests of immunosuppressive medications. Theobjective of this work is to report the first documented case in Latin America of a canine cutaneous hornallegedly associated with Papillomavirus infection
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Dirección de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
2021
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| Online Access: | https://revistascientificas.una.py/index.php/comp/article/view/1967 |
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