Choromatophoromas appear to be relatively common tumours in reptiles. In Bearded Dragons melanophoromas represented 21.6% of all tumours in the study and represented 85% of the choromatophoromas found in lizards. To the authors knowledge there are no previous reports of melanophoromas in acacondas, pigmy rattlesnakes, southern water snakes, veiled chameleons, leopard geckos, or savannah monitors.
In eight cases surgical removal of the tumour was curative. Recurrence was observed in three cases and visceral metastases occurred in six cases. In ten cases the animals were humanely destroyed and three other reptiles died a short time after diagnosis.
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