Removal of malignant melanophoroma with intramuscular invasion in a bowfin fish (Amia calva)

Abstract:

A mature male bowfin fish (Amia calva) presented with a left-sided lateral caudoventral coelomic swelling. Diagnostic imaging (computed tomography and ultrasound) revealed a focal, expansile muscular mass measuring 6.4 × 3.8 cm in diameter and contiguous with the musculature of the left body wall at the level of the pelvic fin. The mass was surgically excised. Histopathology categorized the mass as a malignant melanophoroma. The patient made a full recovery and lived 4 additional years. The patient died from unrelated causes, and necropsy revealed no evidence of recurrence of neoplasia. This is the first documentation of surgical treatment of a melanophoroma in A calva.

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2022

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scopus