What is your diagnosis? Fine‐needle aspirate biopsy from a skin mass on the distal metatarsus of a dog

Abstract

A 12-year-old female neutered, black, standard poodle was presented to the referring veterinary surgeon for a firm, hairless skin mass on her distal metatarsus. There were no other clinical abnormalities at the time of presentation. A single smear was prepared from a fineneedle aspirate biopsy of the lesion was submitted to Veterinary Diagnostic Services, University of Glasgow for cytologic evaluation (Figure 1 and 2).This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.