Melanoma oral em cão tratado por mandibulectomia unilateral total - relato de caso

Abstract

The involvement of oral neoplasms in small animals is high, being the fourth place in the body where the proliferation of cancer cells occurs. The difficulty of tutors in perceiving oral cavity tumors makes it difficult to have a good prognosis for the patient and reduces the options for therapeutic management, since neoformations are progressive and when malignant, they have a high infiltrative and metastatic potential. The bones affected in oral cancer are the maxilla and mandible. In the occurrence of oral cavity neoplasms, the techniques usually determined to treat neoformations is surgical excision, which may be the removal of specific portions of the bone body and adjacent tissues or total removal of the bone. The aim of this text is to report the case of a dog, with no defined breed of 13 years of age, diagnosed with oral melanoma and submitted to surgical treatment of total unilateral mandibulectomy, to which he presented a survival of eleven days after the surgical technique