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
Endometritis has been observed sixteen times, as follows: Carnivora 10,
Rodentia 3, Ungulata 2, Edentata 1. In searching for causes it was found
that the association with a recent delivery of young, an abortion or the
retention of a fetus, was responsible five times. Association with
tumors of the uterus was noted four times. Injury preceded the condition
on two occasions, while one instance seemed to be hematogenic, being
secondary to a septic pneumonia. On four occasions the actual cause
could not be established with satisfaction. Pathologically the traumatic
and parturient cases were purulent while tumors seemed to produce a more
exfoliative or hypertrophic inflammation.
Inflammation of the Fallopian tube has been observed but five times, and
only in one of these did the uterine wall fail to participate in the
disease. The animals affected were three carnivores, one rodent and one
marsupial.
No particularly important association of this salpingitis and other
pathology was noted, and indeed the only noteworthy lesion of the organ
under discussion is now to be cited.
Nylghaie (_Boselaphus tragocamelus_). Chronic vaginitis, fibroma
uteri, chronic tuberculous salpingitis. The vulva and lower half of
the vagina are covered by a thin coating of yellowish mucus. Mucosa is
mottled purple, irregular, in some places smooth and flat, and in
others showing clear cysts with yellowish fluid contents. The upper
part of the vagina shows a pedunculated fibroid extending from the
cervix. This tumor measures 32 × 20 mm., and is attached to the
posterior cervical wall by a broad pedicle and is of smooth surface.
The right uterine wall shows a large fibroid which twists the uterine
lumen to the left. The tumor in the right uterine cornu is nodular,
measures 11 × 9 × 7 cm., shows many dilated veins coursing over the
surface and one section shows a soft central necrotic area. The left
uterine cornu shows a small fibroid at the lower end. There is a
chronic endometritis present. The outer half of the right tube is the
seat of firm nodular swellings, one of which proves to be a purulent
salpingitis (tuberculous), the others calcareocaseous salpingitis.
Both ovaries are fibroid and cystic. Microscopic section shows some
exfoliation of the epithelium of the vagina. The uterine cornu is
thickened and the fibrous tissue is greatly increased. The tube is the
seat of a purulent salpingitis with an occasional broken down tubercle
present. The ovaries show a mild degree of oöphoritis (Fig. 23).
OBSTRUCTIONS TO CONTINUITY OF BIRTH CANAL.
Obstruction to the lumen of the genital canal was observed in three
mammals.
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