MULTIPLE DIGITAL TUMORS IN A ROTTWEILER

An eight-and-a-half-year-old rottweiler bitch was examined on four sep arate occasions over a period of 32 months for lameness caused by a ma ss on a digit. On each occasion the mass and affected digit were amput ated. Three different neoplasms were diagnosed: two squamous cell carc inomas, a melanocytoma and an intracutaneous cornifying epithelioma. T here was no recurrence following surgical excision.