NODULAR DERMATOFIBROSIS AND CYSTIC RENAL-DISEASE IN 3 MIXED-BREED DOGS AND A BOXER DOG

Three mixed-breed dogs and a Boxer dog with nodular dermatofibrosis ar e described. The three mixed breed dogs had concurrent renal epithelia l cysts (n = 2) or renal cystadenomas (n = 1); these lesions were visu alized antemortem on ultrasonographic examination. One of these dogs w as a 7-year-old Labrador Retriever-Gordon Setter mixed breed which sur vived 5 years after diagnosis, and was euthanized for unrelated causes . The Boxer dog had renal cystic adenomatous hyperplasia and renal cys tadenocarcinomas which were not visualized on ultrasonographic examina tion but were diagnosed at necropsy.