Methods of mastectomy at breast fibroadenomas in cats

УДК 619:[618.19-089.87:636.8]
DOI 10.33861/2071-8020-2025-2-33-36

Original Empirical Research

Saenko N.V., Skripnik V.I.

Abstract. The authors analyzed methods of surgical treatment of mammary fibroadenoma in cats in a private clinic in Simferopol. To make a diagnosis, the following research methods were used: medical history, clinical examination of the animal, general blood test, biochemical analysis of blood serum, cytological analysis of aspirate from a mammary tumor, histological, ultrasound and x-ray studies. The subjects of the study were cats with a presumptive diagnosis of mammary fibroadenoma. To determine the degree of invasion of the body tissue of the pathological process, immediately before surgical removal of the tumor, the stage of the oncological process of the mammary gland was determined for all animals using the TNM system. Animals with stage I cancer, whose tumor did not exceed 2 cm in diameter, underwent local mastectomy, removing only the affected mammary gland. The removal was carried out as a single block; the breast tissue was excised along with the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Animals with stage II of the development of the pathological process underwent regional mastectomy. The affected mammary gland was removed en bloc with adjacent mammary glands, and axillary lymphadenectomy was also performed. Cats of the third group, with stage III development of the neoplasm, were subjected to unilateral mastectomy, and in one animal, bilateral mastectomy. The animals’ axillary and inguinal lymph nodes were also removed. The outcome of the disease in all cats, based on the results of observation for 60 days, was recovery. In the early stages of the oncological process, it is sufficient to perform a local or regional mastectomy, but if the oncological process is detected at later stages of development, then a unilateral mastectomy should be performed.

Keywords: tumors, fibroadenoma, cats, mammary gland, treatment, mastectomy, regional, unilateral, bilateral, lymphadenectomy.

Author affiliation:

Skripnik Viktor I., Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine, Docent of the Department of Internal Animal Pathology of the Institute ‘Agrotechnological Academy’ of the Crimean Federal University named after V.I. Vernadsky; Agrarnoe sttl., Simferopol, Republic of Crimea, 295492.

Responsible for correspondence with the editorial board: Saenko Natalia V., Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine, Docent of the Department of Anatomy and Animal Physiology of the Institute ‘Agrotechnological Academy’ of the Crimean Federal University named after V.I. Vernadsky; Agrarnoe sttl., Simferopol, Republic of Crimea, 295492; phone: 8-978-7191267; e-mail: nvsaenko@list.ru.

Authors’ Contribution:

Saenko N.V.: formal analysis, investigation, validation, visualization, writing - original draft preparation.

Skripnik V.I.: conceptualization, data curation, investigation, writing -editing.

Conflict of Interest Statement: the authors declare no conflict of interest.