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Lymphosarcoma with plasmacytoid differentiation in a scarlet macaw (Ara macao)
J A Ramos-Vara1, E J Smith, G L Watson
1Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA.
Avian Diseases
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
A lymphosarcoma in a scarlet macaw (Ara macao) affecting periocular structures is described. Microscopically and ultrastructurally, many of the lymphoid cells had plasmacytoid features. Polymerase chain reaction amplification failed to detect exogenous avian retrovirus RAV-1 in the neoplastic mass.