title: Ovarian carcinoma with transcelomic metastasis in a Barbary ape.
abstract: An ovarian carcinoma, unique among those recorded from nonhuman primates inasmuch as it contained psammoma bodies and ciliated epithelium, was found in a Barbary ape. The tumor was characterized by transcelomic metastasis, a feature common to ovarian and uterine tube malignancies of women.
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000473:pathology; D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo; D005260:Female; D000882:Haplorhini; D008251:Macaca; D008643:Mesentery / Q000473:pathology; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009852:Omentum / Q000473:pathology; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*