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The symptoms, clinical signs, postmortem examination and histological findings of a rabbit with malignant thymoma are described. Moreover, the recent literature was reviewed with regard to symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of thymoma in the rabbit. Malignant thymoma is a relatively rare tumour in rabbits. Symptoms are caused by the space-occupying mass in the cranial part of the thorax and include dyspnoea and inferior caval vein syndrome. Several paraneoplastic syndromes are associated with thymoma, of which bilateral exophthalmos is one of most striking in rabbits. A definitive diagnosis is difficult to establish antemortem. Surgical removal is the treatment of choice and has been succesfully performed in the rabbit. Little is known about the prognosis after surgery.
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Rabbits , Thymoma/veterinary , Thymus Neoplasms/veterinary , Uterine Neoplasms/veterinary , Animals , Diagnosis, Differential , Fatal Outcome , Female , Prevalence , Prognosis , Thymoma/diagnosis , Thymoma/epidemiology , Thymoma/surgery , Thymus Neoplasms/diagnosis , Thymus Neoplasms/epidemiology , Thymus Neoplasms/surgery , Uterine Neoplasms/diagnosis , Uterine Neoplasms/epidemiology , Uterine Neoplasms/surgerySubject(s)
Goat Diseases/pathology , Rhabdomyosarcoma/veterinary , Testicular Neoplasms/veterinary , Animals , Fatal Outcome , Goat Diseases/diagnosis , Goat Diseases/surgery , Goats , Immunohistochemistry/veterinary , Male , Rhabdomyosarcoma/diagnosis , Rhabdomyosarcoma/pathology , Rhabdomyosarcoma/surgery , Testicular Neoplasms/diagnosis , Testicular Neoplasms/pathology , Testicular Neoplasms/surgerySubject(s)
Cell Proliferation , Dog Diseases/pathology , Mastocytoma/pathology , Mitotic Index , Neoplasm Staging/veterinary , Animals , Biomarkers, Tumor , Dogs , PrognosisABSTRACT
The clinical signs and pathological anatomical findings at post-mortem examination of two rabbits are characteristic of those of 'viral haemorrhagic disease'. Because of the very high mortality, the clinical signs, and the acute course, this viral disease, which has only recently been reported in Europe, could be mistaken for poisoning.
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Caliciviridae Infections/veterinary , Rabbits , Animals , Caliciviridae Infections/diagnosis , Caliciviridae Infections/prevention & control , Hemorrhagic Disease Virus, Rabbit/immunology , Viral VaccinesABSTRACT
This article describes three castrated tomcats that were treated with progestins. All three developed symptoms of fibroepithelial hyperplasia of the mammary gland, probably as a consequence of this treatment. This disease is commonly found in intact young female cats, pregnant cats, and progestin treated cats. Therapeutical consequences are dealt with and the importance of (histo)pathological investigation to 'Good Veterinary Practice' is pointed out.
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Cat Diseases/chemically induced , Mammary Neoplasms, Animal/chemically induced , Papilloma/veterinary , Progestins/adverse effects , Animals , Castration , Cats , Hyperplasia/veterinary , Male , Mammary Glands, Animal/pathology , Mammary Neoplasms, Animal/pathology , Papilloma/chemically induced , Papilloma/pathologyABSTRACT
Case report of a dog which possibly was affected with acute pancreatitis and diabetes mellitus. This possibility was verified by post-mortem findings and morbid-anatomical examination. The clinical and pathological findings suggest that the pancreatitis probably followed and possibly was due to the diabetes mellitus.
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Diabetes Mellitus/veterinary , Dog Diseases/diagnosis , Pancreatitis/veterinary , Acute Disease , Animals , Diabetes Complications , Dogs , Female , Pancreatitis/etiologySubject(s)
Bile Duct Diseases/veterinary , Cholelithiasis/veterinary , Horse Diseases/diagnosis , Animals , Bile Duct Diseases/diagnosis , Bile Duct Diseases/pathology , Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic/pathology , Cholelithiasis/diagnosis , Cholelithiasis/pathology , Horse Diseases/pathology , Horses , MaleABSTRACT
Ten bovine omasa showing more or less deformed laminae omasi are described and classified into two groups: one group (I) without and one (II) with macroscopically perceptible inflammation. The possibility that groups II and I are two successive stages of the same process in which necrotizing inflammation plays an important role, is pointed out. The malformation of the bovine omasum described in the literature as aplasia or hypoplasia, bears a resemblance to the malformation in group I, and, in this case, necrotizing inflammation also was the probable cause.
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Cattle Diseases/pathology , Gastritis/veterinary , Omasum/abnormalities , Animals , Cattle , Gastritis/pathology , Omasum/pathologyABSTRACT
Two cases of Aujeszky's disease in a cat and a dog belonging to the same owner are reported. The two animals each were five months of age. The symptoms shown by the cat were typical of Aujeszky's disease: intense itching, salivation and the head bent to one side. The main symptoms shown by the dog consisted in salivation, ptosis of one eye, a drooping ear, the head bent to one side and ataxia. As itching was not observed in the dog and the animal had spent the first months of its life in wooded surroundings, it could also have been affected with rabies, although it had been inoculated with LEP-Flury vaccine forty days prior to importation. It is of importance to the practitioner to know that itching may be absent in dogs with Aujeszky's disease and that rabies should also be suspected in these cases. Only a laboratory diagnosis will be conclusive. Studies were negative for rabies, the virus of Aujeszky's disease being found to be present in the two cases. The source of infection probably consisted in contaminated pork offal (larynges).
