Malignant seminoma with metastasis and herpesvirus infection in a free-living sea otter (Enhydra lutris)

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-39

  Reimer, David C ^a   Lipscomb, Thomas P ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptorchid; Enhydra lutris; Herpesvirus; Sea otter; Seminoma

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CASE REPORT; CORNEA; CRYPTORCHISM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM; ESOPHAGUS; HERPES VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MOUTH MUCOSA; PATHOLOGY; SEMINOMA; TESTIS; TESTIS TUMOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INCLUSION;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; CRYPTORCHIDISM; EPITHELIUM; ESOPHAGUS; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; INCLUSION BODIES, VIRAL; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOUTH MUCOSA; OTTERS; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; VIRION;

EID: 0032015747     PISSN: 10427260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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