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JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL SCIENCE


Volume 11, No. 02, Month MAY, Year 2018, Pages 45 - 56


Treatment of transitional cell carcinoma of urinary bladder using meloxicam in a dog: a case report

Kanokwan Suwankanit, Sukanya Manee-in


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A 12-year-old spayed female poodle dog had clinical sign of stranguria. The dog was definitive diagnosed by radiography, ultrasonography and histopathology that it was invasive transitional cell carcinoma at the neck of urinary bladder. The dog was treated with meloxicam and black sesamin. The side effects of treatment, blood profiles and urinalysis were investigated once a month and urinary bladder ultrasonographic examination was performed every two months for disease progression monitoring. The dog had the stable size of mass. The side effects of meloxicam were not observed during treatment.


Keywords

transitional cell carcinoma, urinary bladder, meloxicam



JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL SCIENCE


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