Year: 2013 | Month: December | Volume 3 | Issue 2
Apocrine Secretory Adenoma in a 2.5 year Old Male Great Dane Dog
Abstract: <div>Apocrine glands are the major type of sweat gland in dogs, and distribution of</div><div>eccrine sweat glands is limited to footpad (Goldschmidt and Shofer, 1992). Apocrine sweat gland tumors are rather common in dogs and tend to occur on the head, neck and limbs. The Golden Retriever is a breed that shows a predisposition to such tumors (Kalaher<i> et al</i>., 1990). The tumor was greatly resembles its human counterpart and originate in the secretory part of eccrine sweat glands (Nibe <i>et al</i>., 2005).</div>
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