Adenocarcinoma of the large bowel and colitis in captive cotton-top tamarins Saguinus o. oedipus.
The gross and microscopic appearance of large bowel adenocarcinoma in two young adult, captive-born cotton-top tamarins is described. A retrospective examination of sections of colons from other animals that had died in the colony revealed a high incidence of chronic colitis. The adenocarcinomas, which resembled those reported from colonies of this species in the U.S.A., are thought to be the first seen in Great Britain.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D000818:Animals; D002143:Callitrichinae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D003092:Colitis / Q000473:pathology*; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D007420:Intestine, Large