Cutaneous melanophoroma in a green iguana (Iguana iguana)

Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-105

  Irizarry Rovira, Armando R ^a   Wolf, Alexander ^b   Ramos Vara, Jose A ^c  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b Avian and Exotic Animal Clinic of Lafayette   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytology; Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Melan A; Melanophoroma; Neoplasia; Reptile

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; LIZARD; MALE; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

ANIMALS; IGUANAS; MALE; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

IGUANA IGUANA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33645775540     PISSN: 02756382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-165X.2006.tb00096.x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Ramos-Vara JA, Beissenherz ME, Miller MA, et al. Retrospective study of 338 canine oral melanomas with clinical, histologic, and immunohistochemical review of 129 cases. Vet Pathol. 2000;37:597-608.
2. Done LB. Neoplasia. In: Mader DR, ed. Reptile Medicine and Surgery. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders; 1996:125-141.
3. Jacobson ER, Ferris W, Bagnara JT, Iverson WO. Chromatophoromas in a pine snake. Pigment Cell Res. 1989;2:26-33.
4. Gregory CR, Harmon BG, Latimer KS, et al. Malignant chromatophoroma in a canebrake rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus atricaudatus). J Zoo Wildl Med. 1997;28(2):198-203.
5. Kusewitt DF, Reece RL, Miska KB. S-100 immunoreactivity in melanomas of two marsupials, a bird, and a reptile. Vet Pathol. 1997;34:615-618.
6. Okihiro MS. Chromatophoromas in two species of Hawaiian butterfly-fish Chaetodon multicinctus and C. miliaris. Vet Pathol. 1988;25:422-431.
7. Ryan MJ, Hill DL, Whitney GD. Malignant chromatophoroma in a gopher snake. Vet Pathol. 1981;18(6):827-829.
8. Leach MW, Nichols DK, Hartsell W, Torgerson RW. Radiation therapy of a malignant chromatophoroma in a yellow rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta quadrivittata). J Zoo Wildl Med. 1991;22:241-244.
9. Mikaelian I, Lynch S, Harshbarger JC, Reavill DR. Malignant chromatophoroma in a day gecko. Exotic Pet Pract. 2000;5(10):73-74.
10. Elkan E. Malignant melanoma in a snake. J Comp Pathol. 1974;84:51-57.
11. Bagnara JT, Hadley ME. Chromatophores and Color Change. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc; 1973:4-131.
12. Bagnara JT, Matsumoto J, Ferris W, et al. Common origin of pigment cells. Science. 1979;203(2):410-415.
13. Smith SH, Goldschmidt MH, McManus PM. A comparative review of melanocytic neoplasms. Vet Pathol. 2002;39(6):651-78.
14. Korabiowska M, Brink U, Frye FF, Harshbarger JC, Schauer A, Kaiser HE. Immunohistochemical and photometric analysis of snake melanomas. In Vivo. 1997;11:415-420.
15. Rohrlich ST. Fine structural demonstration of ordered arrays of cytoplasmic filaments in vertebrate iridophores-a comparative survey. J Cell Biol. 1974;62:295-304.
16. Morrison RL. A transmission electron microscopic (TEM) method for determining structural colors reflected by lizard iridophores. Pigment Cell Res. 1995;8:28-36.
17. Schliwa M, Euteneuer U. Hybrid pigment organelles in an invertebrate. Cell Tissue Res. 1979;196:541-543.
18. Bagnara JT, Kreutzfeld KL, Fernandez PJ, Cohen AC. Presence of pteridine pigments isolated iridophores. Pigment Cell Res. 1988;1:361-365.
19. Bagnara JT. Enigmas of pterorhodin, a red melanosomal pigment of tree frogs. Pigment Cell Res. 2003;16:510-516.
20. Breathnach AS, Poyntz SV. Electron microscopy of pigment cells in the tail skin of Lacerta vivipara. J Anal. 1966;100(3):549-569.
21. Gopalakrishnakone P. The structure of the pigment cells in the turtle Trionyx sinensis. Arch Histol Jap. 1986;49(4):421-435.
22. Roth SI, Jones WA. The ultrastructure of epidermal maturation in the skin of the boa constrictor (Constrictor constrictor). J Ultrastruct Res. 1970;32:69-93.
23. Ramos-Vara JA, Miller MA, Johnson GC, Turnquist SE, Kreeger JM, Watson GL. Melan A and S100 protein immunohistochemistry in feline melanomas: 48 cases. Vet Pathol. 2002;39(1):127-32.