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Abstract A paraneoplastic alopecia associated with internal malignancy is reported in four cats. Acute, bilaterally symmetrical, ventral glistening alopecia, weight loss and lethargy were present in all cats. Skin biopsy specimens exhibited severe follicular and adnexal atrophy with follicular miniaturization, minimal inflammation and, in many cases, absence of stratum corneum. At the time of díagnosis, three cats had a metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma and one had a bile duct carcinoma. This report confirms, and expands upon the previous report of a syndrome associating ventral alopecia and metastatic visceral carcinomas in cats. Résumé— Une alopécie paranéoplasique associée à une tumeur interne maligne est observée sur 4 chats. Les symptômes sont caractérisés par une alopécie symétrique et bilatérale sur le ventre avec un aspect brillant et lisse, un amaigrissement, une lethargic Les lésions histopathologiques sont caractérisées par une atrophie folliculaire et annexielle avec des petits follicules pileux, une inflammation dermique discréte et dans beaucoup de cas, une absence du stratum corneum. Trois chats présentent un adénocarcinome pancréatique métastasé et un chat un ch

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Author
AUREA PASCAL‐TENORIO; THIERRY OLIVRY; THELMA LEE GROSS; BARBARA A. ATLEE; PETER J. IHRKE
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0959-4493)
Published
1997
Language
EN
Field
Medicine (Health Sciences)

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