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Ovarian Choriocarcinoma in a Rhesus Monkey Associated with Elevated Serum Chorionic Gonadotropin Levels

Abstract

A clinically normal, 3-year-old female rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta), which was part of a routine toxicology study, had a mass in the right ovary with metastases to the adjacent mesentery and lungs. The histologic features and immunohistochemistry results were consistent with the diagnosis of choriocarcinoma. Neoplastic cell types included cytotrophoblast (positive for cytokeratin), syncytiotrophoblast (positive for human chorionic gonadotropin), and extravillous trophoblast (positive for human placental lactogen). Because the neoplasm was present in the ovary, the uterus was normal, and the animal was not currently pregnant, this was considered a primary ovarian neoplasm of germ cell origin. The monkey had elevated serum levels of chorionic gonadotropin at the beginning of the study, indicating that, as in women, choriocarcinomas in monkeys can be associated with increased gonadotropin levels and that the tumor was preexisting at the start of the toxicology study.

Key words: Choriocarcinoma; chorionic gonadotropin; germ cell tumor; immunohistochemistry; monkeys; ovary.

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