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. 2020 Nov 3;34(6):2660–2670. doi: 10.1111/jvim.15936

TABLE 3.

Types of canine and feline primary pulmonary neoplasms (PPN) with definitive diagnoses and method of diagnosis. The total patient number is reflective of the unique patients with that tumor type. Given that multiple methods of diagnosis (cytology, surgical biopsy, necropsy, or some combination of these) were used in a given patient, the individual methods of diagnosis do not add up to this total

DOG (n = 431) CAT (n = 110)
Surgical biopsy Cytology Necropsy Surgical biopsy Cytology Necropsy
Bronchoalveolar carcinoma 80 (18.6%) 18 (16.4%)
42 28 31 7 1 10
Bronchogenic carcinoma 16 (3.7%) 6 (5.5%)
1 15 1 0 6 0
Histiocytic sarcoma 50 (11.6%) 1 (0.9%)
16 29 14 0 1 0
Pulmonary adenocarcinoma 102 (23.7%) 26 (23.6%)
69 44 28 6 8 16
Pulmonary carcinoma 136 (31.6%) 51 (46.4%)
33 94 29 11 38 14
Squamous cell carcinoma 11 (2.6%) 5 (4.5%)
7 4 3 0 2 3
Other 36 (7.9%) 3 (2.7%)
11 13 16 0 2 1