Sebaceous adenitis in Swedish dogs, a retrospective study of 104 cases 英文参考文献.docVIP

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMedCentral Research Open Access Sebaceous adenitis in Swedish dogs, a retrospective study of 104 cases Elisabeth Hernblad Tevell*1, Kerstin Bergvall2 and Agneta Egenvall3 Address: 1Bagarmossen Small Animal Hospital, Ljusnevagen 17, SE-128 48 Bagarmossen, Sweden, 2Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agriculture, Box 7054, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden and 3Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Ruminant Medicine and Epidemiology, Swedish University of Agriculture, Box 7054, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden Email: Elisabeth Hernblad Tevell* - lisa_hernblad@; Kerstin Bergvall - kerstinbergvall@; Agneta Egenvall - agneta.egenvall@kv.slu.se * Corresponding author Published: 25 May 2008 Received: 18 December 2007 Accepted: 25 May 2008 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008, 50:11 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-50-11 This article is available from: /content/50/1/11 ? 2008 Hernblad Tevell et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Sebaceous adenitis (SA) is an uncommon, immune mediated skin disease in dogs. The aim was to retrospectively investigate SA in dogs in Sweden with respect to breed, sex and age distribution. A second aim was to retrospectively compare clinical signs in dogs with generalized SA and to estimate the survival after diagnosis in the English springer spaniel, standard poodle and the akita. Methods: In total 34 Swedish veterinarians contributed with 104 clinically and histologically verified SA cases. Breed, gender and age at diagnosis were registered for each case. The degree of clinical signs at time for diagnosis and at follow-up and information about treatm