Table 4.

Histological characteristics of the MCT in dogs assigned to the two treatment groups.

	IM	VP	Statistics
Grading Systems
Patnaik grades	Grade 1–0 Grade 2 (13/13—100%) Grade 3–0	Grade 1–0 Grade 2 10/11 (90.90%) Grade 3 1/11 (9.09%)	p > 0.999 (Patnaik’s) and p = 0.409 (Kiupel)
Kiupel tiers	Low (13/13–100%) High–0	Low (10/11–90.90%) High (1/11–9.09%)
KIT pattern
KIT I	1/13 (7.69%)	1/11 (9.09%)	p = 0.999
KIT II	8/13 (61.5%)	7/11 (63.63%)
KIT III	4/13 (30.79%)	3/11 (27.27%)
Total	13 dogs	11 dogs