Hiraoka Hiroko, Hisasue Masaharu, Nagashima Naho, Miyama Takako, Tanimoto Takashi, Watanabe Malaika, Itamoto Kazuhito, Mizuno Takuya, Inokuma Hisashi, Okuda Masaru
Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Yoshida, Yamaguchi, Japan.
J Vet Med Sci. 2007 Jun;69(6):665-8. doi: 10.1292/jvms.69.665.
An eleven-year-old female pug was referred to Yamaguchi University Animal Hospital for evaluation of anemia and thrombocytopenia. The cytological examination of the peripheral blood showed some giant monocytic lineage blast cells. A few granulocytes and platelets had dysplastic features. On day 7, in addition to increasing the monocytic lineage cells, the dysplastic features of the blood had also increased compared to the initial examination. We performed bone marrow aspiration upon her death. The bone marrow revealed dysplastic features in all three hematopoietic cell lines, and an increase in the monocytic cell line. Based on the features of the bone marrow and the peripheral blood, this case was confirmed to be myelodysplastic syndrome--Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (MDS-CMML).
