Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
A spontaneous high-grade undifferentiated mammary carcinoma in a seven-week-old female rat.
- Journal:
- Experimental and toxicologic pathology : official journal of the Gesellschaft fur Toxikologische Pathologie
- Year:
- 2017
- Authors:
- Faustino-Rocha, Ana I et al.
- Affiliation:
- Department of Veterinary Sciences
- Species:
- rodent
Abstract
The present work describes a rare case of a spontaneous high-grade carcinoma in a seven-week-old Sprague-Dawley female rat that had been included in the control group of an assay of mammary carcinogenesis. The mass was detected at 50days of age, it grown quickly and the animal was humanely sacrificed eight days later. The tumor was located in the left cervical region, in the vicinity of the left submandibular and sublingual glands. It was soft and reddish and had several dens with a bloody content. The tumor was PAS negative and exhibited immunostaining for ER-α. The histopathologic and immunohistochemical data are suggestive of a high-grade carcinoma from mammary gland. It was the first report of a spontaneous mammary tumor in such a young rat.
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