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
The histology of the organs may be described together. The infiltrate
described is a densely packed mass of large cells with large, well
staining nuclei and a very narrow rim of protoplasm. It is not limited
by any definite wall or septa. It has no interstitial tissue. There is
no blood supply in the densest masses but the walls of the blood
vessels remain intact wherever the mass surrounds them. In the lungs
it has involved all structures indiscriminately, and has destroyed
practically all of the respiratory surface. It seems to follow by
preference the peribronchial space. A few glands may be seen in the
centre of this mass, but they are rapidly undergoing degeneration. In
the liver the infiltrate is chiefly beneath the capsule extending
inward but a very short distance. There are no large masses as in
other organs but small infiltrates are seen at the portal areas. The
spleen shows a diffuse excess of pulp cells and many of the cells
above described, the difference being only in the size of the nucleus
which is smaller in the pulp cells. There are very small round cells
relatively. Follicles are absent, connective tissue not altered. Note
states follicles prominent; this is due to nodal hyperplasia of the
large mononuclears above described. The parenchyma in the kidney is
anemic, the epithelium is slightly pigmented but this is probably not
abnormal. Between the tubules especially of the outer layer of the
medulla and medullary ray but also in the cortex and around the
glomeruli are diffuse, irregular, infiltrating masses of the cells as
described above. In some places in the kidney hyaline casts are being
formed probably due to the degeneration of the epithelium by pressure.
There are a few distentions of the tubules. The capsular space is
free. In the neighborhood of the collections the capsules are a trifle
thicker than normal. Lymph nodes, similar to spleen in that most of
the bodies are thoroughly overrun with the large mononuclears. The
sinuses, both marginal and internal, are practically obliterated by
these cells. In the blood vessels of the lungs and liver there are
many large mononuclears, perhaps not as large a number as might be
seen in leucemia, but decidedly in excess of normal.
Common Marmoset (_Callithrix jacchus_). ♂ Adult. Had cage paralysis
for two months before death and declined gradually from that time.
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