Lesões de adrenais e neoplasmas de tireoide em cães

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Tochetto, Camila
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; BR; Medicina Veterinária; UFSM; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicina Veterinária
• Palavras-chave em Português: Doenças de cães; Doenças do sistema endócrino; Adrenais; Tireoide; Hiperplasia nodular; Neoplasmas; Diseases of dogs; Endocrine diseases; Adrenal glands; Thyroid gland; Nodular hyperplasia; Neoplasms; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::MEDICINA VETERINARIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/4111

This thesis involved the study of the adrenal and thyroid glands. The study of adrenals was based, primarily, on epidemiological and pathological aspects of the lesions observed in the glands of 300 dogs necropsied in the Laboratório de Patologia Veterinária at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (LPV/UFSM). For this purpose, a prospective study was performed from March 2012 to June 2013, totaling 16 months. Of the 300 dogs examined, 82% had one or more adrenal lesions. Only 18% of these dogs did not have adrenal changes. The hyperplastic lesions were the most prevalent, comprising 91.5% of the cases, followed by degenerative (26%), circulatory (20.3%), neoplastic (15%), inflammatory (4.1%) and other lesions (14.2%). Most of the animals with hyperplastic lesions consisted of females, elderly and purebred dogs. Fatty degeneration was the most common degenerative lesion (54.7%). Among the neoplastic changes, primary tumors were the most prevalent (75.7%), with a prevalence of adenomas (57.1%), followed by pheochromocytomas (25%) and cortical carcinomas (17.9%). Metastatic tumors corresponded to 24.3% of all cases of neoplastic changes. The adrenal glands were the site of metastasis of mammary gland carcinoma, osteosarcoma, melanoma, lymphoma, cholangiocarcinoma, histiocytic sarcoma and lung adenocarcinoma. Under "other lesions", adrenal of stress was the most prevalent change (37.1%). It was characterized histologically by a cortex with irregular appearance. For the study of thyroid lesions, it was reviewed the protocols of biopsies and necropsies performed at the LVP/UFSM between 2004 and 2014, and all cases of thyroid tumors were selected. Epidemiological data, clinical significance of tumors, presence of cervical swelling, affected lobes, tumor size, presence and location of metastasis and histological pattern of the neoplasm. It were recorded 26 tumors of the thyroid gland. Of the affected dogs, 53.9% were females and 46.1% were males; 65.4% were purebred. Of these, Boxers were the most affected (15.4%). In 23 protocols the age was informed; 60.9% of the dogs were elderly and 39.1% were adults. The protocols evaluation allowed establishing that 38.5% of the animals had shown cervical swelling, at the time of clinical examination. From the dogs that underwent to necropsy, only 13.6% died or were euthanized due to complications caused by metastases of thyroid tumors. Thus, in 86.4% of the dogs, the neoplasms were considered as incidental necropsy findings. Glandular unilateral involvement occurred in 75% of the dogs. The histological diagnosis of primary tumors showed that 61.5% of the neoplasms were classified as follicular cell carcinomas, 23.1% as follicular cell adenomas, 7.7% as carcinosarcomas and 7.7% as tumors of C cell. Additionally, two cases of thyroid follicular cell carcinoma in dogs that developed myelopathy secondary to cervical spinal epidural metastasis were minutely evaluated, and separately reported.