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Provedor de dados: | Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia
País: | Brazil
Título: | Neuropathic pain and prognosis of a dog submitted to limb amputation after diagnosis of soft tissue sarcoma - case report
Autores: | Ferreira,M.G.P.A.; Antunes,A.V.; Pascoli,A.L.; Nazaret,T.L.; Gering,A.P.; Reis Filho,N.P.; Costa,M.T.; Nardi,A.B.
Data: | 2019-08-01
Ano: | 2019
Palavras-chave: | Analgesia; Oncology; Phantom limb; Radiotherapy; Tumor.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT Neuropathic pain occurs when there is a lesion or a dysfunction of the nervous system. Humans and veterinary patients may develop neuropathic pain, but in veterinary it is not often reported probably because of its mistaken diagnosis. A canine patient was admitted to the Veterinary Hospital of UNESP-Jaboticabal-SP, Brazil with a nodule on the left thoracic limb. The nodule was surgically removed, and histopathological analysis demonstrated the tumor was a soft tissue sarcoma (STS) and the margins were not clean. Based on the patient’s health condition and the lack of suitable equipment, the next procedure was limb amputation. The patient received analgesic medication in the post-surgery period; nevertheless, clinical signs of neuropathic pain were present, such as compulsive licking and other behavioral disorders. Medications were administered for forty days, but clinical signs ceased only when replaced with a tryciclic antidepressant drug, Amitriptyline. Therapeutic management of the patient in this report can be considered effective, since five years after the end of the treatment there was no recurrence or presence of metastasis.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-09352019000401116
Editor: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Escola de Veterinária
Relação: | 10.1590/1678-4162-10778
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia  v.71 n.4 2019
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess