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
DIAGNOSIS.—Bronchopneumonia. Myeloid hyperplasia of bone marrow.
Myeloma in pancreas. Fatty degeneration of liver. Constipation.
Nematodes in cecum. Animal is thin, skin bare in spots. Both lungs are
pale pink with large areas of deep red consolidation. Heart is
dilated, increased in size with firm, red-brown muscle. Liver is firm,
red-brown, with smooth surface and sharp edges. Section surface is
glistening, smooth and moist. Lobular outlines are clear by reason of
pale lines. The gall-bladder is normal in size and contains fluid pale
green bile; duct patulous. Spleen is normal in size, smooth capsule,
soft, purple pulp, follicles small and faint, trabeculæ fairly
prominent. Kidneys normal in size and shape. Capsule smooth. Section
surface smooth and brown and firm. The glistening section surface has
a narrow cortex, swells slightly, with prominent striæ. Intestines
throughout are pale on serosa. Wall thin. Mucosa flat, pale pink.
Contents creamy mucus in the upper intestine. Large intestine contains
large masses of very firm feces. Cecum is distended with feces and a
great quantity of nematode worms. They are not attached to mucosa nor
does mucosa seem altered because of their presence. Skeleton and
muscles.—Long bones of extremities break easily, but with snap. Skull
can be dented with fingers. Bone marrow of femur bright red.
MICROSCOPICAL NOTES.—Liver shows moderate degree of fatty degeneration
with capillary congestion. Kidneys negative. Some postmortem change in
last two organs. Spleen, marked congestion. Hyperplasia of large lymph
cell type, particularly in follicular centres. Blood destruction
moderate. Bone marrow seen in condition of marked activity of myeloid
type. Aside from enormous crowding of strands there does not seem to
be any atypical cell. Intestines show practically no change. Same
condition holds in pancreas. In several places in pancreatic ducts
cross sections of nematodes may be found. In among lobules of pancreas
is a well encapsulated cellular mass without particular architecture.
It consists of cells of large lymphocyte or endothelioid series. There
are numerous cells of size and staining characters of small
lymphocytes. There are no megalocytes but there are some
indistinguishable from myelocytes. This may be an intrapancreatic
lymph node. One small lymph node found in section; it shows a picture
quite like the marrow except for megalocytes. Blood vessels do not
show an excess of leucocytes in free or coagulated blood.
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