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When the disease first begins to manifest itself, lesions are usually evident in the oral cavity of the dog. [9] Aside from these blisters, the dog may be mostly asymptomatic before the disease progresses further. [4] The blisters are easily ruptured and become painful upon doing so, [4] which can cause the dog to have difficulty eating. [15]
The lipomas are well-encapsulated, slow-growing, benign fatty tumors. The distribution is defined as being focused in the trunk of the body and extremities. [2] Familial Multiple Lipomatosis can be identified when multiple lipomas occur in multiple family members that span different generations. [2] Some people may have hundreds of lipomas ...
A fibrolipoma is a lipoma with focal areas of large amounts of fibrous tissue. A sclerotic lipoma is a predominantly fibrous lesion with focal areas of fat. [12] Neural fibrolipomas are overgrowths of fibro-fatty tissue along a nerve trunk, which often leads to nerve compression. [7]: 625
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[25] Although lipomas can develop at any age, they more commonly appear between the ages of 40 and 60. [24] Lipomas affect about 1% of the population, with no documented sex bias, and about 1 in every 1000 people will have a lipoma within their lifetime. [25] [26] The cause of lipomas is not well defined.
Venereal granulomata on a dog's penis. A canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT), also known as a transmissible venereal tumor (TVT), canine transmissible venereal sarcoma (CTVS), sticker tumor and infectious sarcoma, is a histiocytic tumor of the external genitalia of the dog and other canines, and is transmitted from animal to animal during mating.
A foreign-body giant cell is a collection of fused macrophages which are generated in response to the presence of a large foreign body. This is particularly evident with catheters , parasites , or biomaterials that are inserted into the body for replacement or regeneration of diseased or damaged tissues.
Dercum's disease is a rare condition characterized by multiple painful fatty tumors, called lipomas, that can grow anywhere in subcutaneous fat across the body. [1] Sometimes referred as adiposis dolorosa in medical literature, Dercum’s disease is more of a syndrome than a disease (because it has several clinically recognizable features, signs, and symptoms that are characteristic of it and ...