• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.173-177
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• 2000

A 3-year-old male Tosa was presented the severe dyspnea, emaciation and dehy dration. By echocardiograpy, right ventricle was found to be a mobile mass dynamically occluding the right ostium atrioventriculare in the systolic phase. At necropsy, 14 days after ultrasonography multiple tumor masses of various size were observed in the heart base, right ventricular lumen, myocardium, lung and liver. Histopathologically, the tumor cells, arranged in sheets or nests, were diagnosed as metastatic intracavitary cardiac aortic body tumor