Nasopharyngeal myxosarcoma in a Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris).
An 18- to 25-yr-old intact female Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris) was diagnosed antemortem and postmortem with nasopharyngeal myxosarcoma metastatic to the lung, chronic lymphoplasmacytic otitis media, and lymphoplasmacytic and eosinophilic stomatitis. Myxosarcomas are rare in domestic animals and seldom metastasize; this tumor has not been previously reported in an exotic felid. Computed tomography of the skull was used during the diagnoses.
Shilton
Catherine M
CM
Ringling Brothers and Baerum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation, 12850 Old Grade Road, Polk City, Florida 33868, USA.
Thompson
Margret S
MS
Meisner
René
R
Lock
Brad
B
Lindsay
William A
WA
D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo; D002335:Carnivora; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000662:veterinary; D009236:Myxosarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary / Q000662:veterinary*; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000662:veterinary