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
Immediately under the ovary is an irregular mass measuring 2 cm. long,
1 cm. wide, 1 cm. deep. The lower part of the tumor thus comes to
press against the cloaca. It is adherent anteriorly to the peritoneum.
It apparently consists of two parts, an upper rounded larger, and a
lower spherical smaller. Both parts are well encapsulated and
separated from each other by a well defined constriction. The upper
part has a pale opalescent appearance. It cut easily with moderate
resistance. The lower portion externally has an egg-yellow color
streaked with red. Upon section it has the same general appearance but
contains in addition numerous small, irregular, yellow areas which
mask the general opalescent appearance. The centre of this node
contains an empty space (cyst) 1 × 2 mm. Microscopic section consists
of an oval or elliptical mass showing over one convexity a depression
simulating a constriction. A thin fibrous capsule extends over most of
the section which is extra thick at the point of constriction.
Constriction roughly divides the section into two. The upper portion
consists of one or two coarse septa of fibrous tissue. From these
central areas a delicate connective tissue framework extends
peripherally. In this framework are great numbers of irregular gland
spaces. These gland spaces are so closely placed in most cases that
room is afforded for but one nucleus of the bundle. The gland spaces
vary in size, some large, some small, and show grotesque shapes. The
larger gland spaces here contain granular debris and pyknotic nuclei.
Compound granule cells suggesting colostrum corpuscles may be seen in
this debris. The epithelium of the gland spaces consists of a single
layer of columnar epithelium of low cuboidal type. In places it is
heaped up so as to present several layers. In places too it is not
applied in a regular manner to the basement membrane but breaks
through and then the cells extend in most disorderly fashion into the
lymphatics of the stroma. At these points the nuclei are
hyperchromatic. The lower portion follows closely the description
given above save that the glandular spaces are much larger. They
contain pink glandular material with admixture of compound granule
cells. At the convexity of the tumor the acini are especially large.
Here they contain a pink granular material which stains more intensely
than the other granular contents and, too, inside of this intense pink
material are sharply circumscribed areas of yet more intensely pink
staining material. This latter substance has a streaming appearance
under the high power. This streaming appearance is due to elongated
areas of less dense material which are placed with their long axes
parallel. This lower portion shows, furthermore, even with the naked
eye, two large cysts which are lined by epithelium and contain a very
small number of compound granule cells. The capsule at the lower pole
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