Cholangiocarcinoma with metastasis in a captive Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae)
M S Renner1, J Zaias, G D Bossart
1SeaWorld Cleveland, 1100 SeaWorld Drive, Aurora, Ohio 44202, USA.
Abstract:
A captive male Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae), wild caught in 1976, died unexpectedly. Necropsy revealed cholangiocarcinoma with metastases to lung, pancreas, mesentery, and cloaca, the first known case of a penguin hepatic tumor.
