ABSTRACT
Chronically recidivating enzootic ulcerations in the tongues of numerous milking cows in the Po river plain area in Italy. The animals were permanently kept indoors in cubicle houses and fed by hay containing high amounts of ripe yellow bristle grass (Setaria glauca (L.) Beauv. [= S. pumila Poiret]). The panicled parts of the culms were found to be the cause of the massive injuries.
Subject(s)
Cattle Diseases/etiology , Oral Ulcer/veterinary , Poaceae/adverse effects , Tongue Diseases/veterinary , Animal Feed , Animals , Cattle , Cattle Diseases/pathology , Female , Italy , Oral Ulcer/etiology , Oral Ulcer/pathology , Tongue/pathology , Tongue Diseases/etiology , Tongue Diseases/pathologyABSTRACT
The authors report a statistical investigation conducted in 95 patients with mammary carcinoma, designed to show the behavior of calcemia in the course of this malignancy. The data were analyzed statistically by the binomial test, the scatter of values (F test of Snedecor), and the t test of Student. The authors confirmed the existence of a statistically significant alteration of calcemia only in the group of patients with metastasis to bone versus control subjects; conversely there was no significant difference of distribution in the various groups in regard to values beyond those given as normal.
