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A pseudocystic lipoma in the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) |
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| Authors: | Mohey El -S. Easa M. Faisal J. C. Harshbarger F. M. Hetrick |
| Affiliation: | Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, and University of Alexandria, Egypt;Registry of Tumors in Lower Animals, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., USA;Department of Microbiology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA |
| Abstract: | This is the first report of lipoma in the European eel Anguilla anguilla. In a single eel that was obtained from a polyculture fish farm in northern Egypt, a yellowish swelling (10 mm in diameter) was observed near the tip of the lower lip. The tumor was composed of mature lipocytes that occasionally fused into an unlined cystic space. |
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