title: Neuroblastoma in the dog.
abstract: Two malignant canine tumours of peripheral neuronal tissue are described. A mediastinal neuroblastoma was found in a 15-mth-old Boston Terrier with dyspnoea. The tumour compressed adjacent lung and invaded the cervical spinal cord. A retroperitoneal ganglioneuroma was found in a 2-yr-old Labrador with posterior ataxia and atrophy of the muscles of the hind legs. This tumour surrounded adjacent adjacent soft tissues and invaded the overlying vertebrae.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary