title: Primary intranasal melanoma with brain invasion in a dog.
abstract: A 6-year-old castrated male boxer dog with right-sided dark purulent nasal discharge and acute bilateral blindness was diagnosed on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and then on necropsy with primary nasal malignant melanoma that extended into the brain, as well as concurrent ocular melanosis. There was no evidence of metastasis in other organs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Studies, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 (Lemetayer); Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4 (Al-Dissi, Tryon, MacDonald-Dickinson).
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lemetayer
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Studies, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 (Lemetayer); Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4 (Al-Dissi, Tryon, MacDonald-Dickinson).
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al-Dissi
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Studies, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 (Lemetayer); Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4 (Al-Dissi, Tryon, MacDonald-Dickinson).
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tryon
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Studies, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 (Lemetayer); Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4 (Al-Dissi, Tryon, MacDonald-Dickinson).
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: MacDonald-Dickinson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001766:Blindness / Q000150:complications / Q000662:veterinary; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary / Q000662:veterinary*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D004285:Dogs; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000662:veterinary; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary / Q000662:veterinary*; D008548:Melanosis / Q000150:complications / Q000662:veterinary; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D009919:Orchiectomy