DOI: 10.26155 / VET.ZOO.BIO.201904008
UDC 619
Authors
M. V. STEPANOVA
YAROSLAVSKAYA STATE AGRICULTURAL ACADEMY
V.A. OSTAPENKO
MOSCOW STATE ACADEMY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY - MBA NAMED AFTER K. I. SKRYABIN
Abstract
The aim of the study was to identify and describe neoplasms of different animal organs of the Yaroslavl Zoo. Statistics on the incidence of pathologies for 5 years of the study are considered. Clinical cases with a description of the diagnosis and surgical treatment of animals with neoplasms are presented. On average, the death rate of animals of the zoo due to cancer amounted to 5,05%. In 81,25% of cases, cancer caused the death of animals. Neoplasms of different localization were found in 16 animals differing in sex: 75% malignant neoplasms, the rest are benign. The study found that the most common lymphomas, adenocarcinomas and osteosarcomas. Most often, digestive organs were observed; immune organs, reproductive organs, musculoskeletal system, skin and integument epithelium, neoplasms with an unexplained primary focus were identified in isolated cases.
Keywords
tumors, benign and malignant neoplasms, lymphoma, osteosarcoma, seminoma, basal cell skin cancer, adenocarcinoma, malignant plasmacytoma, cystadenoma, keratopapilloma, uterine fibroma, obstructive serous liver cysts.
