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Survival Data for Canine Oral Extramedullary Plasmacytomas: A Retrospective Analysis (1996–2006)

From the Departments of Small Animal Clinical Sciences (Wright) and Veterinary Pathobiology (Mansell), and Office of the Dean (Rogers), College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843.

In a 10-year period, extramedullary plasmacytomas (EMP) represented 5.2% of all oral tumors found in the dog (16/302). These 16 oral EMP comprised 28.5% of all EMP within the same time period. Eleven dogs died with a median survival time of 474 days. Five dogs remain alive at the time of this writing. Dogs without complete surgical removal of the EMP and no adjuvant therapy had a median survival time of 138 days. Oral EMP have a clinical behavior consistent with EMP arising from other tissues. They have no obvious correlation with multiple myeloma, and complete surgical resection may be curative.