Aggressive keloid-mimicking tumor in Melanosuchus niger in captivity

Ciência Rural

Washington Luiz Assunção Pereira²  Antônio Messias Costa¹  Aline Amaral Imbeloni¹  Thatiana De Andrade Figueiredo¹  Klena Sarges Marruaz Da Silva¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia (UFRA) Instituto da Saúde e Produção Animal (ISPA) Belém PA ,Brasil

关键词: skin lesion;    Black caiman;    Melanosuchus niger;    keloid;    lesão cutânea;    jacaré-açu;    Melanosuchus niger;    Queloide;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0103-84782013005000092

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The objective of this note is to describe a case of exuberant scarring formation, with keloid characteristics and pseudo-tumoral configuration in a male Black caiman (Melanosuchus niger), with an estimated age of 60 years, belonging to the Zoobotanical Park at the Emílio Goeldi Museum, located in Belém, Pará, Brazil. The alteration appeared on the right posterior limb involving two distal phalanges of the lateral digit and measured 12.4cm at the greatest width. The keloid tissue was surgically removed and samples were processed and analyzed histopathologically, revealing growth made up of fibrous connective tissue with the habitual morphology, which was structurally mature in the more central areas.

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