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
Rhesus Macaque (_Macacus rhesus_). Glandular hyperplasia of prostate.
The bladder is collapsed. The opening of the urethra is occupied by a
firm, friable yellow-white cast of matter apparently inspissated
semen. Urethral mucous membrane normal. Prostate is 7 × 4.5 × 3 cm.
firm, resilient, dull purple-gray, capsule negative. Section shows
normal lobulations containing apparently normal secretion. Vasa
negative. Testes negative. Microscopic section of prostate shows acini
of various sizes lined by a single layer of tall vacuolated cells with
nucleus at the bottom. Cells probably nowhere reduplicated. Acini
nowhere grossly atypical but everywhere hyperplastic and dilated
irregularly. Mass is adenomatous in general increase but no part is
truly neoplastic. Interstitial tissue rather less than normal
proportionately. No “amyloid” bodies.
[Illustration:
FIG. 30.—PAPILLARY ADENOMATOUS HYPERPLASIA OF THE PROSTATE GLAND. RING
TAILED LEMUR (LEMUR CATTA).
]
Still another case of accessory sex gland enlargement was found in a
Ring tailed Lemur (_Lemur catta_), this time, however, with more
suggestion of a neoplastic change. The prostate of the lemur is normally
large, pale gray-pink and rather firm. Histologically it is about
equally glandular and fibrous. In this case the cellular activity is
undoubted, and one must consider it adenomatous. The cause of death was
enteritis, being perhaps more serious in the presence of the urethral
obstruction.
The seminal vesicles are distended to 7 × 2 cm. with a thick boiled-
starch-like material. Wall and mucosa are negative. Prostate large,
tense and injected. Its cut surface is pale purple, homogeneous;
character of fluid is normal although excessive. Urethra is occupied
by a cast of rather tenacious starch-like matter which begins at neck
of bladder and runs almost to meatus. Openings of excretory ducts are
prominent. Mucosa and submucosa of urethra are deep purple and the
former seems to be slightly opaque as if covered with desquamated
epithelium. Testes and epididymes seem normal. Vasa deferentia are
slightly distended with excess of normally turbid fluid. Microscopical
section shows hyperplastic epithelial condition with accumulation of
droplets of hyaline matter but there is no amyloid deposit. In places
it is possible to see a hyperplastic and loosened epithelium with
nuclei becoming vacuolated, and the whole being cast off. Less
granular free globules suggest that this is the method of origin of
the hyaline globules free in the acini. The picture is one of
papillary adenoma. In some places there is surely reduplication of the
lining cells. Connective tissue is deeply staining, compact and with
adult nuclei. Growth is not very vascular. There are no corpora
amylacea.
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