A Labrador Retriever was presented to University Veterinary Hospital, Kokkala with the Military Airplane complaint of nasal bleeding and sneezing for the last one month.Occasional left-unilateral epistaxis, persistent sneezing and facial swelling were the characteristic clinical features.Radiograph revealed mild rarefaction of bones at the cranial Heated Merchandisers/Display tip of maxilla.
Biopsy and histopathology revealed pleomorphic squamous epithelial cells with feeble intercellular bridges, poor keratinization, prominent nucleoli and mitotic figures.This article reports a case of invasive nasal squamous cell carcinoma in a dog with epistaxis, persistent sneezing and facial swelling.