Table 2.

Surface body temperature data of canine limbs affected with bone neoplasia and their normal contralateral limb

Temperature	Cancer a	Contralateral	Paired Difference b	P-value
Minimum (°C)	24.83 ± 0.37	24.76 ± 0.37	0.07 ± 0.16	0.6571
Maximum (°C)	31.53 ± 0.39	31.23 ± 0.39	0.37 ± 0.24	0.1241
Average (°C)	28.56 ± 0.43	28.01 ± 0.43	0.53 ± 0.14	0.0005

^a Mean and standard error based on nested MMANOVA models

^b The difference between cancer and non-cancer means may not be identical to the difference computed by pair matched analysis due to rounding error