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. 1926 May 31;43(6):807–813. doi: 10.1084/jem.43.6.807

MELANOMA (SARCOMA) OF THE EYE IN A SYPHILITIC RABBIT

Wade H Brown 1, Louise Pearce 1
PMCID: PMC2131144  PMID: 19869162

Abstract

A melanotic tumor developed in a defective eye of a syphilitic rabbit following repeated genital inoculations with Treponema pallidum. The appearance of the tumor coincided with the development of a syphilitic lesion in the same eye, suggesting a relation between the occurrence of the two lesions.

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