title: Treatment of squamous cell carcinoma involving the buccal pouch in a crab-eating macaque.
abstract: Persistent swelling of the left buccal pouch was noticed in an adult female crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis). A mass involving almost the entire musculature of the pouch was removed surgically. The histopahtologic diagnosis was squamous cell carcinoma. Recurrence of the mass was treated by a combination of surgical excision and radiation therapy.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D002610:Cheek; D005260:Female; D000882:Haplorhini; D008251:Macaca; D008252:Macaca fascicularis; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local