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
An Aoudad (_Ovis tragelaphus_) showed a ruptured parovarian cyst with
normal right side pregnancy. The fetus, its placenta and membranes
show no change. The right broad ligament and ovary are negative, the
latter containing a red and gray corpus luteum. The left ovary is
fibrotic and the left ligament is the seat of a large hematoma, which
on section is found to contain thin sheets of gray translucent
membrane, like walls of a cyst. The vessels are all distended.
Arteries have stiff walls and are empty. Veins have well formed clot.
The whole uterus and adnexa were slightly turned to the right, but the
twist does not seem to have been sufficient to cause rupture of a
broad ligament vessel. Microscopic section of the broad ligament shows
a parovarian cyst into which there has been hemorrhage. The cyst is
separated from the ovary proper by a short band of tissue which
apparently consists of thinnedout ovarian cortex.
TUMORS.
Tumors of this tract in the mammals have been confined to the uterus
proper, none having been found in the vagina, tubes or ovaries; in birds
one oviductal growth and two ovarian tumors are recorded. These tumors
are reported briefly according to their histological structures, a brief
summary being added at the end.
A Black Lemur (_Lemur macaco_) showed a local leiomyofibromatous
nodule on the lateral aspect of the uterine body near the cornu.
A nine banded Armadillo (_Tatu novemcinctus_) gave an interesting
specimen which can be described as follows: The uterus is enlarged so
that it measures 90 mm. from external os to fundus. Tubes and ovaries
apparently normal. There is considerable grumous blood in the vagina
and cervix; the former is normal. The cervix is pale and opaque in its
lower half; upper half is slightly congested and mucosa decidedly
rugous. The uterus itself shows an attenuated muscular wall with a
thickened irregular mucosa which is the seat of pseudomembranous tabs
of a dull red color, while the mucous membrane itself is irregularly
red and yellow; also some grumous blood in the cavity. The size of the
uterus is due to a large fibroma attached to the left lateral wall
near the cornu. The mucous membrane of this is irregularly disturbed
in some places, the tumor being partly bare. Here and there the mucous
membrane shows the same degenerating hypertrophic character as seen on
uterine wall. The tumor is attached to the wall by a narrow peduncle
(Fig. 25).
A nylghaie with multiple fibromata has already been described.
A Jaguar (_Felis onca_) presented in the middle of the right uterine
cornu a cystic resilient tumor 3 × 4 cm., which proved to be a
fibroadenoma.
A lioness (_Felis leo_) presented a penetrating malignant adenoma of
the uterine cervix upon which an active endometritis was implanted.
The tumor penetrated the uterine wall, which gave way, an acute fatal
peritonitis resulting. Metastases had occurred to the lung.
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