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Rhabdomyosarcoma, Mouse and Hamster

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Cardiovascular and Musculoskeletal Systems

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A cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma in an adult male CD-I mouse was described as a well-demarcated raised pale focus, 3–4 mm in diameter, in the left ventricular wall (Gregson 1984). Experimentally induced neoplasms were indicated to be solid masses which were wet and gray on cut surface (Perk and Moloney 1988). Rhabdomyosarcomas have been reported in CD-I mice (Percy and Jonas 1971), B6C3F1 mice (Ward et al. 1979), and female BALB/c mice (Sheldon and Greenman 1979), but the gross appearance of the neoplasms was not described.

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  1. Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, ILSI Research Foundation, 1126 Sixteenth Street, N.W., 20036, Washington D.C., USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  2. Medizinische Hochschule Honnover, Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, W-3000, Hannover 61, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ulrich Mohr M.D. (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

  3. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, 01772, Southborough, MA, USA

    Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

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Carlton, W.W., Engelhardt, J.A. (1991). Rhabdomyosarcoma, Mouse and Hamster. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Cardiovascular and Musculoskeletal Systems. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76533-9_20

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