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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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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Anaplastic carcinoma
meerkat
neoplasia
oral
squamous cell carcinoma
Suricata suricatta