Estomatite ulcerativa crônica em um cão atendido no Hospital Veterinário da UFPB: Relato de Caso.

Abstract

CUPS or CCUS is the English acronym for Chronic Ulcerative Paradental Stomatitis, it is a disease that affects dogs, characterized by lack of appetite, dysorexia, apathy, anorexia and sialorrhea due to the pain that affects the animal. This disease is very similar to the feline gingivitis-stomatitis complex, but its complete pathology is not yet fully elucidated, perhaps because it is little reported and investigated, but it is understood that the animal has an exacerbated reaction to the presence of dental plaques causing a strong inflammatory reaction that determines ulcerative lesions on the lips and tongue adjacent to teeth affected by plaque, which may progress to necrosis and possible destruction of the lip. In this work, the case of an animal that was admitted to the Veterinary Hospital in September 2022, with characteristic clinical signs of the disease, was described and aims to elucidate the symptomatology of the disease. The patient was referred for a surgical procedure of extraction and during the surgery material was collected for biopsy, which showed a lymphoplasmocytic infiltrate associated with chronic inflammation. After the return of this animal, a great post surgical recovery and reduction of injuries was noted.