Unusual presentation of an Amazon parrot (Amazona species) with hepatocellular carcinoma

K P. Freeman
Kevin A. Hahn
Michael P. Jones, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
M G. Petersen
Robert L. Toal, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Abstract

Non-haematopoietic hepatic malignancies are uncommon in birds. The clinical presentation (i.e, chronic buphthalmos) and non-specific radiographic findings observed in this adult Amazon parrot (Amazona spp,) were not consistent with previous reports describing the natural behaviour of metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma in birds.