Multiple dermal lipomas in farmed striped seabream lithognathus mormyrus on the Spanish mediterranean coast

Abstract

Two cases of multiple dermal lipomas were found in cultured striped seabream Lithognathus mormyrus (L.) from the southeast coast of Spain. A histopathological study suggests that pigmented cells may correspond to melanomacrophage aggregates. The presence of these aggregations is likely related to the occurrence of a pathological process of tumoral nature. © Inter-Research 2009.