Surgical Management of Extra-Thoracic Axillary Inter-muscular Chondrolipoma in a Dog

A 5-year-old female Belgian Malinois dog was presented with a firm, progressively enlarging mass in the left axilla adjacent to cranio-ventral thoracic region for the past six months. Clinical signs included inconvenience to gait and reduced appetite. Lateral thoracic radiograph revealed multifocal amorphous mineralizations inside the mass without any association with any specific organ and the Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology revealed adipose tissue involvement. Surgical excision of the mass was performed under general anesthesia. Histopathological examination revealed that the mass as an inter-muscular chondrolipoma with dystrophic calcification. With good post operative care and management, animal showed uneventful recovery without any postoperative complications.