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1 June 2014 ANAPLASTIC MANDIBULAR CARCINOMA IN A MEERKAT (SURICATA SURICATTA)
Liza I. Dadone, Michael M. Garner, Eric Klaphake, Matthew S. Johnston, Sushan Han
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Abstract

An 8-yr-old female slender-tailed meerkat (Suricata suricatta) presented with a necrotic sublingual mass and osteolysis of the mandible. After 1 mo of palliative care, the meerkat was euthanized. The mass was diagnosed histologically as an anaplastic carcinoma with extensive rostral mandibular destruction. Immunohistochemistry for vimentin and cytokeratin was validated in this nontypical species and showed that neoplastic cells expressed both mesenchymal and epithelial characteristics, suggestive of a primitive and poorly differentiated tumor. A review of 150 adult slender-tailed meerkat histopathology reports showed a 2% prevalence of orofacial neoplasia, suggesting that oral neoplasms are uncommon in meerkats.

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Liza I. Dadone, Michael M. Garner, Eric Klaphake, Matthew S. Johnston, and Sushan Han "ANAPLASTIC MANDIBULAR CARCINOMA IN A MEERKAT (SURICATA SURICATTA)," Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 45(2), 413-416, (1 June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1638/2013-0158R.1
Received: 22 July 2013; Published: 1 June 2014
KEYWORDS
Anaplastic carcinoma
meerkat
neoplasia
oral
squamous cell carcinoma
Suricata suricatta
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