Figure 8: Histologic section of the resected peri-orbital mass in a bearded dragon

Higher power view showing the trabecular and circular clusters of neoplastic squamous cells (arrows), with foci of necrosis and heterophilic inflammation. Streams of fibroblasts (*) surrounded many of the clusters, indicating a schirrous response and inflammatory cells were infiltrating the stroma (arrowhead indicates a group of heterophils) and epithelial cell clusters (H&E stain).

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