Smears from the genital epithelium of five dogs with mammary carcinoma contained cells that morphologically resembled those in tissue sections of the primary lesion. During postmortem examination of three of these animals cells exfoliated from selected sites were examined to identify the probable area of desquamation of tumor cells. Histologic sections of the grossly normal vestibules contained submucosal micrometastatic foci of tumor.
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