Oral Malignant Squamo-Melanocytic Tumor in a Dog

Dorn CR Priester WA . Epidemiologic analysis of oral and pharyngeal cancer in dogs, cats, horses, and cattle. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1976; 169:1202–1206.

Brown CC Baker DC Barker IK . Alimentary system. In: Jubb, Kennedy, and Palmer's Pathology of domestic animals. Maxie MG , ed. 5th ed., vol. 2, Saunders/Elsevier: Philadelphia, 2007; 1–296.

Head KW Else RW Dubielzig RR . Tumors of the alimentary tract. In: Tumors in domestic animals. Moulton JE , 3rd ed., Iowa State Press: Ames, IA, 2002; 401–431.

Ramos-Vara JA Beissenherz ME . Retrospective study of 338 canine oral melanomas with clinical, histologic, and immunohistochemical review of 129 cases. Vet Pathol 2000; 37: 597–608.

Smith SH Goldschmidt MH McManus PM . A comparative review of melanocytic neoplasms. Vet Pathol 2002; 39:651–678.

de los Monteros A Espinosa De Las Mulas JM . Immunohistopathologic characterization of a dermal melanocytoma-acanthoma in a german shepherd dog. Vet Pathol 2000; 37:268–271.

Gross TL Ihrke PJ . Veterinary dermatopathology: Mesennchymal neoplasms and other tumors. In: Skin diseases of the dog and cat. Blackwell Science Ltd: Ames, IA, 2005; 822–834.

Kamino H Tam ST Alvarez L . Malignant melanoma with pseudocarcinomatous hyperplasia–an entity that can simulate squamous cell carcinoma. a light-microscopic and immunohistochemical study of four cases. Am J Dermatopathol 1990; 12: 446–451.

Moll R Franke W . The catalog of human cytokeratins: Patterns of expression in normal epithelia, tumors and cultured cells. Cell 1982; 31: 11–24.

Ramos-Vara JA Miller MA . Melan A and S100 protein immunohistochemistry in feline melanomas: 48 cases. Vet Pathol 2002; 39: 127–132.

Akiyama M Inamoto N Nakamura K . Malignant melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma forming one tumour on a burn scar. Dermatology 1997; 194:157–161.

Muhlemann MF Griffiths RW Briggs JC . Malignant melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma in a burn scar. Br J Plast Surg 1982; 35:474–477.

Piérard GE Fazaa B . Collision of primary malignant neoplasms on the skin: The connection between malignant melanoma and basal cell carcinoma. Dermatology 1997; 194:378–379.

Pool SE Manieei F . Dermal squamo-melanocytic tumor: A unique biphenotypic neoplasm of uncertain biological potential. Hum Pathol 1999; 30:525–529.

Rosen LB Williams WD . A malignant neoplasm with features of both squamous cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma. Am J Dermatopathol 1984; 6:213–219, 1984.

Roh YH Lee HW . Collision tumour of the rectum: A case report of metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma plus primary rectal adenocarcinoma. World J Gastroenterol 2006;12: 5569–5572.

Willis RA . Structure and growth of tumors. In: Willis RA , Pathology of tumours. 4th ed, Butterworth, 1967; 138.

Nobukawa B Fujii H . Breast carcinoma diverging to aberrant melanocytic differentiation: A case report with histopathologic and loss of heterozygosity analyses. Am J Surg Pathol 1999; 23:1280–1287.

Ben-Izhak O Stark P . Epithelial markers in malignant melanoma. a study of primary lesions and their metastases. Am J Dermatopathol 1994; 16:241–246.

Patterson-Kane JC Ginn PE . Dermal malignant melanoma in a horse with multifocal pancytokeratin expression. J Vet Diagn Invest 2003; 15:54–56.

Wright JM Binnie WH . Intraoral melanoacanthoma. J Periodontol 1983; 54:107–111.

Fatahzadeh M Sirois DA . Multiple intraoral melanoacanthomas: A case report with unusual findings. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 2002; 94:54–56.

Fornatora ML Reich RF . Oral melanoacanthoma: A report of 10 cases, review of the literature, and immunohistochemical analysis for HMB-45 reactivity. Am J Dermatopathol 2003; 25:12–15.