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
A Wild Boar (_Sus scrofa_) had a generalized ulcerating carcinoma of
the uterine body.
An instance of chorionepithelioma in a Canada porcupine is worthy of
separate description.
[Illustration:
FIG. 25.—PEDUNCULATED FIBROMA UTERI. NINE BANDED ARMADILLO (TATU
NOVEMCINCTUS).
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 26.—FIBROMYOMA OF UTERUS. CORNUA AND TUBES. INDIAN ELEPHANT
(ELEPHAS INDICUS). WHOLE MASS AS MOUNTED ON BOARD. IT MEASURED WHEN
FRESH ABOUT SIX FEET ACROSS.
FIG. 27.—CROSS SECTION OF CORNU OF Fig. 26 AT HIGHER POWER. A PIECE
CUT OFF WHERE THE PALE AREA SHOWS ON THE RIGHT CORNU OF THE OTHER
FIGURE.
]
Canada Porcupine (_Erethizon dorsatus dorsatus_). Acute suppurative
catarrhal endometritis, hemorrhage in myometrium, chorionepithelioma.
In anterior abdominal wall a short quill was found imbedded. A very
small quill was imbedded in the retrocervical muscles. A quill about 2
cm. long lies free in the peritoneal cavity attached by recent plastic
adhesions to peritoneum over left pubic ramus. A fourth quill was
adherent by recent fibrous lesions to anterior wall of cecum.
Peritoneum contains a moderate excess of thin watery fluid. Liver and
spleen are negative. Kidney is large, greenish yellow, firm, smooth
and glistening. The right uterine cornu is subinvoluted (the animal
was delivered of a fetus before arrival at the Garden, which was
sixteen days before death). Its walls are thick and distinctly
congested, the congestion being of inflammatory type. Microscopic
section of uterus shows a regular, not ulcerated serosa. Subjacent
fibrous tissue is loose and contains a granular precipitate together
with a few red blood cells. Muscular bundles under this are widely
separated evidently partly by trauma, but certainly also by edematous
interstitial tissue in which fibrillæ are widely separated and between
which free red blood cells and plasma cells are seen. Capillaries
ramifying through muscular bundles are greatly distended and
congested. Numerous large arteries are present in addition. Some of
these contain pink granular material within their walls together with
diffuse collection of red blood cells. Fibroblasts extend into this
necrotic mass from other sections of the walls. Lumen of such arteries
is diminished and in places quite obliterated by recent organization
tissue. At many places in muscularis are large cells of irregular
rounded form and some cytoplasms incline toward the basic tint with
one or several large hyperchromatic nuclei. They are especially likely
to occur close to a capillary. There is an especially large
accumulation of these cells at that point of section farthest from
fundus. Here these cells occur in chord-like masses which infiltrate
the muscularis both internally and externally. This particular mass
lies in the muscularis internal to great arteries and well removed
from mucosa. In this mass are giant cells with multiple nuclei
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