Successful treatment of a squamous cell carcinoma in a white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum
Autor: | Susan Rhind, Gidona Goodman, Anna Meredith |
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Rok vydání: | 2007 |
Předmět: |
Male
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Skin Neoplasms medicine.drug_class Antibiotics Administration Oral Rhinoceros medicine.disease_cause Diagnosis Differential Trimethoprim Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination medicine Carcinoma Animals Perissodactyla General Veterinary biology Ceratotherium simum Chlorhexidine Cancer biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Anti-Bacterial Agents Staphylococcus aureus Carcinoma Squamous Cell Staphylococcal Skin Infections medicine.drug |
Zdroj: | Veterinary Dermatology. 18:460-463 |
ISSN: | 1365-3164 0959-4493 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-3164.2007.00631.x |
Popis: | A captive 33-year-old male white rhinoceros with seasonal dermatitis was diagnosed with a malignant squamous cell carcinoma on the right flank. Staphylococcus aureus was cultured from the skin lesions. No fungal or yeast was isolated. The dermatitis was treated with a combination of oral antibiotics (trimethoprim-sulphadiazine) and topically with weekly chlorhexidine washes and a mixture of a zinc oxide, balsam peru and bismuth oxide cream. Under azaperone and butorphanol anaesthesia, the skin tumour was surgically removed. The tumour was excised with wide margins and allowed to heal by secondary intention as primary wound closure was not possible. A post-mortem performed 2 years later for an unrelated condition revealed no metastases or recurrence of the skin tumour. It was presumed that chronic irritation or trauma may have contributed to the development of the skin tumour. This is the first detailed report of the successful treatment of a squamous cell carcinoma not associated with the horn in a rhinoceros. |
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