[Tumors of the liver, biliary tracts and pancreas in monkeys]

The article deals with spontaneous tumours of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas observed in monkeys of the Sukhumi Simian Nursery during the period of 1960--1974. Among tumours of the liver hepatoadenomas predominated: they were revealed in 4 macaco rhesuses, one green marmoset. In a young baboon hamadryad adenomatous hyperplasia was observed to be developed against the background of hepatocirrhosis. All three cases of tumours of the biliary tract in baboons hamadryad were classified as adenocarcinomas. Descriptions of liver cell anaplastic carcinoma with extensive metastasizing in Macaco rhesus, those of insuloma of the pancreas in the same species, and of papilary duct carcinoma of the head of the pancreas in a red ape (Erythrocebus patas) are presented for the first time. All the monkeys with tumours, but one, were at the age over 10 years and were born in the Nursery, or had been brought to it more than 7 years before.