Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : $b incidence, description, comparisonFox, Herbert
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Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : $b incidence, description, comparison
Fox, Herbert
Veterinary medicine
The histological character of the primary cancers would place them in
group of the nodular and infiltrative types of Kauffman. They all seem
to have taken their origin from the smaller bronchi, the usual starting
point. The growths were small in the civet and bandicoot and strongly
suggest that the tumors arose in bronchi occupied by parasites; such
bodies could not be demonstrated. It is the usual thing to find in cases
of parasitism of the bronchi that if there be no ulcerative destruction
of tissue the epithelium undergoes some form of hyperplasia, and even
structural metaplasia in the air tubes supplied with cuboidal or
cylindrical cells. Epithelia many layers deep have been encountered,
usually arranged in orderly fashion but frequently “papillomatoid,”
suggesting the epidermal layers yet not so far as to show protoplasmic
bridges. Distention of various degrees, affected by the contents of the
tube and the surrounding inflammation, are common. Such a picture
naturally resembles epithelioma and indeed growths of this nature are
reported as due to verminous pneumonitis.
There are, especially in cats and dogs, small scattered adenomatoid
growths[21] under the pleura and in the pulmonary substance, thought to
originate in the alveolar epithelium and occasionally growing to large
size; the case in the kangaroo may have had this origin. _It was the
only primary tumor to give metastasis_ (to the spleen and gastric wall),
the secondaries being decidedly adenomatous in character.
Metastatic growths come from the following originals: two from the
thyroid, well known to give pulmonary embolism in dogs; one each from
the breast, uterus, adrenal, intestine and kidney. The form assumed is a
gray and red mass lying under the pleura or an isolated nodule in the
substance. Sarcomatosis, the form apparently spreading out from the
hilum and growing in isolated grayish tubercular masses, has not been
seen.
THE PLEURA.
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