Lesões do sistema locomotor em cães: estudo retrospectivo de 244 casos (2012 – 2021)

Abstract

The present work was carried out with the objective of elucidating the most frequent lesions in the locomotor system of dogs diagnosed by the Animal Pathology Laboratory of the Veterinary Hospital of the Federal University of Uberlândia in the period from 2012 to 2021, showing the races, ages and sex most affected in each category. To this end, 13,305 anatomopathological records were evaluated and 244 forms were selected that contained necroscopic or histopathological diagnoses of bone, muscle or joint lesions. Lesions of the locomotor system are poorly diagnosed in dogs, representing 1.83% of prevalence. Adult animals with a mean age of 6.41 years represented the majority of cases, with no sexual predisposition to the lesions. Bone affections were the most frequent (59.02%), compared to muscular (31.15%) and joint (9.84%), and injuries of traumatic and proliferative origin prevailed over the other aetiological categories. Significant developmental risk was observed only for bone neoplasms in Rottweiler dogs. With this, it is concluded that there is a low frequency of diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries in dogs, and knowledge is important in taking prophylactic and therapeutic measures.