title: [Feline papillomavirus infection in a cat with Bowen-like disease and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma].
abstract: A cutaneous mass in the neck was excised in a 13-year-old cat. Histopathological examination of the resected tissue revealed a multicentric squamous cell carcinoma in situ resembling Bowen's disease of man. The tumor showed a multifocal transformation to an infiltrative squamous cell carcinoma. Histological and immunohistological findings excluded actinic keratosis and feline viral plaques and allowed a classification as an irregular non-hyperkeratotic type of multicentric squamous cell carcinoma in situ. As a possible causative agent feline papillomavirus type 2 was detected using nested PCR in formalin-fixed material.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pathologie der Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schwittlick
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bock
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lapp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Henneicke
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wohlsein
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001913:Bowen's Disease; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell; D002415:Cats; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012878:Skin Neoplasms