Odontoma in a 255-Million-Year-Old Mammalian Forebear

Megan R Whitney; Larry Mose; Christian A Sidor

doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.5417

Odontoma in a 255-Million-Year-Old Mammalian Forebear

JAMA Oncol. 2017 Jul 1;3(7):998-1000. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.5417.

Authors

Megan R Whitney¹, Larry Mose², Christian A Sidor¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle2Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle.
² Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle.

Abstract

This study describes cancer in a 255-million-year-old mammalian forebear and comments on the implications for establishing the phylogenetic and physiologic conditions under which such pathologic conditions first arose.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Animals
Diagnosis, Differential
Fossils / diagnostic imaging
Fossils / pathology*
Mammals
Odontoma / diagnostic imaging*
Odontoma / pathology
Odontoma / veterinary
Phylogeny
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Tooth Abnormalities / diagnostic imaging
Tooth Abnormalities / pathology
Tooth Abnormalities / veterinary*