The first case of lymphangiomyomatosis in a marine mammal is reported from a stranded male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). This progressive proliferative disease involved the lungs and the mediastinal and probably mesenteric lymph nodes. An extraordinarily low level of testosterone may have been pathologically significant since all reported cases of this disease in humans occur in females.
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1 April 1992
Lymphangiomyomatosis in the Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
Arnold J. Rawson,
Geoffrey W. Patton,
John S.J. Brooks
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Vol. 28 • No. 2
April 1992
Vol. 28 • No. 2
April 1992
Bottlenose dolphin
case report
first case
lung
lymphangiomyomatosis
testosterone
Tursiops truncatus