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- Title
Titanium mesh reconstruction of a dog's cranium after multilobular osteochondrosarcoma resection.
- Authors
de Casterlé, A. Dierckx; Van Goethem, B.; Kitshoff, A.; Bhatti, S. F. M.; Gielen, I.; Bosmans, T.; De Cock, H.; de Rooster, H.
- Abstract
An eleven-year-old cavalier King Charles spaniel was presented with a large mass arising from the sagittal crest of the skull. Computed tomography also revealed an intracranial component. A histological diagnosis of multilobular osteochondrosarcoma grade 1 was made from surgical biopsies. Since this tumor type has a moderate aggressive biological behavior characterized by a slow growth, compression of adjacent structures, and only a 30% metastatic rate, surgical resection was performed. A wide partial craniectomy was performed, the skull defect was reconstructed with a designated custom designed titanium mesh and the skin defect closed with a local subdermal plexus flap technique. Histologic evaluation indicated clean surgical margins, which may lead to a long-term survival in this low-grade tumor. Approximately seventeen months after surgical resection, the dog showed no signs of local tumor recurrence or metastasis.
- Subjects
SKULL diseases; DOG diseases; VETERINARY therapeutics; SKULL surgery; DOG surgery; METAL mesh
- Publication
Vlaams Diergeneeskundig Tijdschrift, 2017, Vol 86, Issue 4, p232
- ISSN
0303-9021
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.21825/vdt.v86i4.16184