Prevalencia de neoplasias en pacientes caninos Canis lupus familiaris diagnosticados por citología mediante PAF en dos veterinarias de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

In veterinary medicine, there has been an increase in the number of oncologic cases in recent years, therefore, more and more doctors focus on treating these animals, especially in the clinic of minor species. It is important to recognize the different masses, so it is necessary to use adequate tools for diagnosis to do an appropriate approach plan; nowadays the effective and widely used tests are fine needle cytology and histopathology. In the following research we determined which are the most common tumors in dogs, diagnosed by cytology. The design of this work is descriptive with a purposive sampling and quantitative approach; it is a cross – sectional, non – experimental study. Among the results obtained it was observed that there was a population of 100 canines, where 110 different masses were observed, and of these 32 neoplasms were identified, of which 57.27 % were benign, whit a higher incidence of lipoma (15.87 %), and of the malignant ones (42.73 %) there was a higher incidence of mastocytoma and lymphoma, with 17.02 % each. It was evidenced that most of the cases of masses were identified in small and medium breeds, gerontic dogs, in females, in dogs with ideal body condition, and in indoor animals. The Chi – square test indicated that the type of neoplasia will depend on the sex of the animal, the other variables were shown to have and independent relationship.