Extraskeletal fibroblastic osteosarcoma in a rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

J Small Anim Pract. 2001 Sep;42(9):456-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-5827.2001.tb02502.x.

Abstract

A seven-year-old rabbit was presented with a non-painful mass in the right upper lip. Tissue samples from the mass at three different stages of the disease process were diagnosed sequentially as an osteogenic sarcoma, a fibroblastic tumour with rudimentary osteoid formation and, lastly, a fibrosarcoma. No bone involvement or metastatic disease was found. The final diagnosis was of an extraskeletal fibroblastic osteosarcoma, which is, to the authors' knowledge, the first reported such case in a domestic rabbit. Without the first two tissue samples, an incorrect diagnosis would have been reached; therefore, this disease may be underrepresented in the literature.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Fibrosarcoma / pathology
  • Fibrosarcoma / surgery
  • Fibrosarcoma / veterinary
  • Lip Neoplasms / pathology
  • Lip Neoplasms / surgery
  • Lip Neoplasms / veterinary*
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / pathology
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / surgery
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / veterinary*
  • Osteosarcoma / pathology
  • Osteosarcoma / surgery
  • Osteosarcoma / veterinary*
  • Prognosis
  • Rabbits*