Congenital hepatoblastoma in a neonatal alpaca cria.
A neonatal alpaca cria found to have minimal clinical abnormalities was diagnosed postmortem with an epithelial-type hepatoblastoma with combined embryonal and fetal patterns, based on previously reported morphological features. Camelid neoplasia and domestic animal hepatoblastomas are very rare, with only a single case of congenital hepatoblastoma in a domestic animal previously reported.
Watt
B C
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Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
Cooley
A J
AJ
Darien
B J
BJ
D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D002161:Camelids, New World / Q000002:abnormalities; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005552:Forelimb / Q000002:abnormalities; D018197:Hepatoblastoma / Q000151:congenital / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D007794:Lameness, Animal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000151:congenital / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D011859:Radiography