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عنوان مقاله [English]
A 13 years old, intact female, mixed terrier dog was presented to Tehran University, Small Animal Teaching Hospital of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine for investigation of sever weight loss and decrease of appetite. In clinical examination a large fleshy mass was palpated at the upper portion of the neck. The dog was 
anesthetized, and a biopsy of the mass was obtained, and submitted 
for histopatological analysis. The sections composed of nests or 
packets of cells generally were uniform in size, with indistinct 
cellular borders and moderate to abundant amounts of light, 
eosinophilic cytoplasm. Nuclei were round to oval with evenly 
dispersed chromatin. Macrophages in capsular connective tissue 
and in trabecules had haemosiderrin stain. The final histological 
diagnosis was chemodectoma. In view of the poor body condition, 
large size of the tumor, the animal was euthanaised and submitted 
for postmortem examination. In macroscopic examination the 
mass v as encapsulated at the bifurcation of the carotid artery with 
some attachment to it. No evidence of distant metatasis was found 
in neither macroscopic nor microscopic examinations. 
Chemoreceptor tumors (chemodectoma) rarely are diagnosed in 
cats and dogs. Aortic body tumors are identified more commonly 
in dogs and cats, while carotid body tumors are the most common 
in humans.
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