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. 2001 Nov;42(11):872–874.

Congenital hepatoblastoma in a neonatal alpaca cria.

B C Watt 1, A J Cooley 1, B J Darien 1
PMCID: PMC1476658  PMID: 11708207

Abstract

A neonatal alpaca cria found to have minimal clinical abnormalities was diagnosed postmortem with an epithelial-type hepatoblastoma with combined embryonal and fetal patterns, based on previously reported morphological features. Camelid neoplasia and domestic animal hepatoblastomas are very rare, with only a single case of congenital hepatoblastoma in a domestic animal previously reported.

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