title: Salivary mucocele with osseous metaplasia in a dog.
abstract: A 4-year-old, male, dachshund was referred to a certain local veterinary hospital because of a soft and fluctuant swelling in the left upper cervical region. The swelling was surgically removed and appeared to be filled with bloody mucus. Grossly, the swelling was identified as salivary mucocele and showed small multifocal whitish ossified tissue on its surface. Microscopically, the wall of salivary mucocele appeared as granulation tissue surrounding mucin, which was composed of loose edematous and vascularized connective tissue containing chronic inflammatory cells such as lymphocytes, plasma cells and macrophages. Characteristically, present case had ossifying components formed by metaplastic spindle cells in the wall of salivary mucocele. Therefore, the present case was diagnosed as salivary mucocele with osseous metaplasia in a dog.
authors: College of Veterinary Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Republic of Korea.
authors: Jin-Kyu
authors: JK
authors: Park
authors: Jung-Youn
authors: JY
authors: Han
authors: Il-Hwa
authors: IH
authors: Hong
authors: Ok-Kyung
authors: OK
authors: Hwang
authors: Kyung-Sook
authors: KS
authors: Hong
authors: Ae-Ri
authors: AR
authors: Ji
authors: Mi-Ran
authors: MR
authors: Ki
authors: Se-Il
authors: SI
authors: Park
authors: Tae-Hwan
authors: TH
authors: Kim
authors: Dong-Hag
authors: DH
authors: Choi
authors: Kyu-Shik
authors: KS
authors: Jeong
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D004285:Dogs; D008297:Male; D008679:Metaplasia / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary; D009078:Mucocele / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D012466:Salivary Gland Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*