Reinke's Crystals in an Interstitial Cell Tumour of a Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

✍ Scribed by F Marino; G Ferrara; G Rapisarda; V Galofaro

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 121 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0936-6768
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0531.2003.00453.x

✦ Synopsis

Contents One case of interstitial cell tumour in the testicle of a New Zealand White rabbit was reported. The rabbit was 9‐years old and had monolateral testicular lesion. There was enlargement of left testis and the lesion were seen on the cut surface. Light microscopy revealed intracytoplasmic crystals of Reinke that resembled to the features observed for this tumour in human. Immunohistochemically, this tumour was positive for vimentin.