necrolytic migratory erythema/edema

Twenty-two dogs with superficial necrolytic dermatitis were evaluated prospectively, twenty-one of which had characteristic crusting lesions of the paw pads. Histologically, epidermal lesions included parakeratosis and laminar intracellular edema. The plasma amino acid concentrations of eight dogs

BACKGROUND Necrolytic migratory erythema (NME) is an uncommon inflammatory dermatosis with a distinct clinical and histologic appearance. NME is usually associated with glucagonoma. Only a few cases of NME in the absence of glucagonoma have been previously reported. OBJECTIVE We sought to understand

A newly recognized disease in dogs, ulcerative dermatosis associated with diabetes mellitus (diabetic dermatopathy), was diagnosed in 2 dogs with pancreatic endocrine tumors that had immunohistologic evidence of glucagon production. Dogs developed diabetes mellitus in the later stages of the