Figure 2

Composition of inflammatory infiltrate associated with canine mammary carcinoma. Infiltrating leukocyte populations from MC-BMT or MC (A), further subcategorized according to the absence (-) or presence (+) of lymph node metastasis (-) (B). The inflammatory cells were characterized by image analysis as described in Material and Methods. Data were expressed as number of cells (#) per eight "Hot Spots" histological fields. Significant differences at p < 0.05 are highlighted by asterisk.