CASE-REPORT - REPORT OF AN ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE LUNG IN A GREEK TORTOISE

A radiodense area of the left coeloma was found in a greek turtoise (t estudo hermanni), admitted to clinical examination because of a paresi s of the left forelimb and an increasing dyspnoea. Histopathologically , the space-requiring process proved to be a tubuloalveolar adenocarci noma, having its origin in the bronchial epithelium. Inside the lung t issue, the growth of the tumour occured expansive and canalicular. On the other hand it infiltrated the peritracheal tissue. The cranial mar gin of the neoplasm reached the acromion scapulae of the left forelimb , leading to the observed paresis.