Surgical management of mammary tumor in an eight-years old local bitch: A case report

Abstract

An eight years old local female dog was presented to Benue state veterinary Epidemiological clinic Makurdi, with swelling mass on the third right mammary gland, the mass show redness, alopecia, slide enlargement of lymph node and bloody discharges on clinical observation. The surgery was performed under general anaesthesia and the mas was removed. Basic parameters were normal including blood values, heamogram. A surgical management was conducted and the tumour was extirpated, under general anaesthesia, ketamine hydrochloride at the dose of 35mg/kg body weight and premedicated with xylazine hydrochloride at the dose of 3mg/kg body weight, banking soda (sodium bicarbonate) was applied on the defected created following the surgery. The defect was closed in three layers, the muscular and subcuticular were closed with chromic cat gut size 3-0, while the skin was close with nylon size 3-0. The post-surgical management was done with penstrep at the dose of 20mg/kg body weight intramuscularly for 4 days, surgical site was treated by application of oxyspray for 6 days, cyclophosphaminde was administered at the dose of 0.5mg/kg body weight for 10 days. The healing was recorded swift and the sutures were removed on day 12 post-surgery.