Canine and Feline Epulides

The work consists of 41 pages, 25 pictures, 48 references were used. The aim of this study: to evaluate the incidence of canine and feline epulides. The tasks: to findout what part of all gingival pathologies consists epulides, to find out if dog or cats more ofen has epulides, to asses the predisposition of sex, age and breed, and to find out the most common types of epulides diagnosed for cats and dogs. Methods: the gingival hyperplasias were also counted as epulides. 4 feline and 2 canine gingival samples were collected at private small animal clinic in Kaunas between 2015 – 2016 years and 6 feline and 18 canine gingival samples were evaluated from LUHS Veterinary academy Pathology center archivied during 2012 – 2016 years. 10 feline and 20 canine gingival samples were evaluated during this study. Conclusions: the study showed that epulides were diagnosed 58,33 % of canine gingival samples and 42,86 % of feline gingival masses. Epulides were most commonly diagnosed for dogs, most commonly for males. 58,33 % of canine epulides were diagnosed from 6 to 9 years old dogs, 50 % of feline epulides were diagnosed for from 4 to 6 years old cats. There was no breed predisposition for dogs, among cats, the epulides were the most common diagnosed in mixed breed cats. The study showed that 71,4 % of canine epulides were fibromatous epulides, 14,3 % were gingival hyperplasias, acantomateus and ossifying epulides contained at 7,14 % each. For cats, the most common diagnosed types of epulides were gingival hyperplasia (66,7 %) and fibromatous epulides (33,33 %), the multiple feline epulides, identified as fibromatous epulides, were diagnosed for 1 cat