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Nowadays, it has become more and more usual to see non-traditional animals as pets, which increases the demand for their medical care and other diverse medical services. For this study, samples were taken by fine needle aspiration, in some cases ultrasound guided, obtaining a total of 16 samples of different non-traditional companion animals (ferret, iguana, hedgehog, guinea pig, rat, turtle, rabbit and bearded dragon) in a period of 3 months at the Wildlife Hospital of the Veterinary Medicine Faculty, UNAM. According to the observed slides, 2 samples were non-diagnostic, 2 were lymphoma, 5 inflammatory disease (2 heterophilic and 3 mixed), 2 squamous cell carcinomas, 1 chordoma, 1 neoplasm mesenchymal (possible lipoma), 2 mesenchymal lesions, and 1 sarcoma (histiocytic or lymphoma). These results coincided with those published by other authors taking according to each species. |
