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Metastatic perioral melanoma in a wild mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)
Eddy Kambale Syaluha1, Dawn Zimmerman2, Jan Ramer3
1MGVP, Inc., Goma, DR Congo.
Journal of Medical Primatology
|April 24, 2021
Abstract:
A 30-year-old free-ranging female mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) developed a perioral mass that was surgically debulked and diagnosed as malignant melanoma. After tumor recurrence, a canine melanoma vaccine was administered. However, the gorilla died shortly thereafter, and metastases to lymph nodes, lung, liver, and kidney were found post-mortem.

