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SUBMITTER: Plesker R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7041523 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Plesker Roland R Bleyer Martina M Mätz-Rensing Kerstin K
Primate biology 20180405 1
We present a case of spontaneous meningioma in a female pig-tailed macaque (<i>Macaca nemestrina</i>) more than 24 years old. Clinically, the monkey displayed slow, weak, and insecure movements and poor vision. A tumorous mass was present at the floor of the cranial vault extending from the optic chiasm towards the foramen magnum. It compressed adjacent parts of the brain, infiltrated the sphenoidal and occipital bone, and showed transcranial expansion into the pharyngeal area. Histologically, t ...[more]