ABDOMINAL MASS DUE TO CHRONIC SALPINGITIS IN AN AFRICAN GREY PARROT (PSITTACUS ERITHACUS)
作者:
Laurel A. Degernes,
期刊:
Veterinary Radiology&Ultrasound
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 35,
issue 1
页码: 24-28
ISSN:1058-8183
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1740-8261.1994.tb00173.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: African Grey Parrot;Psittacus erithacus;psitticines;avian;peritonitis;eggyolk peritonitis;salpingitis;egg binding
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
An adult female African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus) was referred with a two year history of intermittent illness and a recently palpated abdominal mass. Hematologic and microbiologic laboratory results on presentation were non‐diagnostic. In survey and barium sulfate contrast radiographs there was a large soft tissue mass in the abdominal cavity displacing the proventriculus craniodorsally, and the ventriculus and small intestines cranially. Euthanasia was elected after exploratory laparotomy revealed extensive peritonitis and intestinal adhesions in the coelomic cavity. At necropsy, a 3.5 cm diameter mass was removed from the left oviduct. The histopathologic diagnosis was chronic salpingitis with intraluminal mass, and serositis of many abdominal organs. The oviduct mass consisted of concentric layers of egg yolk and inflammatory cell debri
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