Dolphins are marine mammals that often live in coastal habitats. Common causes of severe skeletal disorders among wild dolphins congenital vertebral anomalities, collisions with sea vessels, trauma, hunting-related injury, infectious diseases, environmental pollution, and tumors.A free-ranging male, 3-year-old common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) was found dead the coast Asturias northern Spain. ...

Hypertrophic osteopathy (HO) is a diffuse periosteal reactivity of long bones and poor prognosis as most cases died after short time or euthanized at the diagnosis. Early diagnosis greatly important. Therefore, present study aimed to investigate clinical different imaging features HO in 12 dogs hematological biochemical changes. Twenty-two were included this study; 10 apparently healthy used co...

This paper reviews hypertrophic osteopathy and describes one case report. Hypertrophic osteopathy is a rare pathologic disease process and is observed secondary to a mass in the thorax. In response to the presence of a mass(es), nonoedematous soft tissue swellings and a diffuse periosteal new bone formation develop in all four limbs. The result is mild to severe lameness. A twelve-year-old sexu...

Case summary An 11-year old neutered female domestic shorthair cat presented for investigation of a large, partially ulcerated skin mass in the area of the left scapula. The cat had been vaccinated 6 weeks previously in the same area. Haematology showed a marked neutrophilia and monocytosis. Tru-cut biopsies were taken and histopathology was consistent with a high-grade soft tissue sarcoma. Tho...