Title Page
Contents
Abstract 8
1. Introduction 10
2. Materials and methods 12
2.1. Case selection 12
2.2. Medical records retrieval 12
2.3. Histopathologic evaluation 12
2.4. Immunohistochemistry 12
2.5. Data analysis 13
3. Results 14
3.1. Animals and samples 14
3.2. Statistics for complete data 15
3.3. Non-neoplastic oral disease 20
3.4. Benign neoplasia 23
3.5. Malignant neoplasia 26
4. Discussion 30
References 35
Abstract (in Korean) 40
Table 1. Breed distribution of the study population 16
Table 2. Localization of oral lesions 17
Table 3. Distribution of histological diagnoses and mean age of each group 18
Table 4. The five most common histological diagnoses in Maltese and Poodle breeds 19
Figure 1. A microphotograph of gingivitis. 21
Figure 2. A microphotograph of fibroepithelial polyp. 22
Figure 3. A microphotograph of p eripheral odontogenic fibroma. 24
Figure 4. A microphotograph of a canthomatous ameloblastoma. 25
Figure 5. A microphotograph of o ral squamous cell carcinoma. 27
Figure 6. A microphotograph of o ral malignant melanoma. 28
Figure 7. A microphotograph of o ral fibrosarcoma. 29