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Originally Posted by Nebulosa
Mijke, a long time I had saw a very small ammount pituitary glands of addult dwarfs in biopsy, some of them were visibly different even in size and format, I would like to know, for those breeders who lost one or two puppies in litter, would be possible by a necropsy see if it was the pituitary gland of a dwarf pup?
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With histology it can't be proved it is pituitary dwarfism.
You only can have strong suggestions it maybe is.
Most of the time the pituitary of dwarfs has cystic deformations and relative less pituitary tissue
But also normal dogs can have cystic deformations in the pituitary.