UTERINE SEROSAL INCLUSION CYSTS IN A BITCH

A six-year-old, pluriparous German shepherd dog bitch was presented wi th an abnormal vaginal discharge of several weeks' duration. Clinical signs and radiographic and ultrasonographic findings supported an init ial diagnosis of segmental cystic endometrial hyperplasia, and ovarioh ysterectomy was performed. Macroscopically, the uterus appeared normal except for one large and several smaller cysts attached to its antime sometrial side. These cysts were restricted to a small area of the lef t uterine horn. The histological diagnosis was serosal inclusion cysts . The clinical findings, gross pathology and histopathology are descri bed and discussed.