Mesothelioma In Cattle Two Case Reports, Mesothelioma In Two Nondomestic Felids North American Cougar Felis Concolor And Cheetah Acinonyx Jubatus

The patients included a 68 year old man and a 67 year old man who both had a history of exposure to asbestos.

Tnm staging malignant mesothelioma. This is the first report of two siblings of different gender with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma and only average environmental asbestos exposure. It is frequently located in pleural cavity peritoneum and pericardium. The abdomen was considerably.

At present the available data on the prevalence of mesothelioma in cattle are inconsistent. Muscle atrophy and dehydration but the cow was bright and. In both cases a histopathological examination of the pleura confirmed the diagnosis of epithelioid malignant.

Health general blood circulation disorders liver cirrhosis care and treatment case studies diagnosis testicular cancer type 2 diabetes vascular diseases. Mesothelioma is usually diagnosed in people over the age of 50 with large history of asbestos related exposure. Physical examination showed poor body condition with.

Mesotheliomas are rare tumours in domestic animals and are most commonly described in cattle. This paper reports a case of mesothelioma in an adult cow attended at the ruminant clinic of livestock development center federal university of bahia in. It is highly likely that the family described in this case report has some form of inherited susceptibility to malignancy cancer gene hla type or tumor suppressor gene mutation.

Two recent and ten older cases of mesothelioma were reviewed together with 139 cases reported in the literature. We herein report two cases of malignant pleural mesothelioma with marked lymphangiosis. 90 mesothelioma in cattle.

At the testicles the mesothelioma had been reported first in 1957 like a malignant non germ cells tumor. It was concluded that exposure to asbestos dust was as important for the development of this neoplasm in cattle as it is in human beings. It is rare in animals but occurs spontaneously in many different species including cattle dogs cats swine and horses.

This manuscript describes two cases of malignant mesothelioma one in a cow and one in a young calf. We report two cases of mesothelioma in adult sheep with different clinical presentations but gross postmortem examination revealed marked ascites in both cases even though the tumours were in different locations. In people malignant pleural mesothelioma is associated with asbestos exposure.

The objective is to present two case reports of benign testicular mesothelioma and review of the literature. Mesothelioma is a diffuse neoplasia of the serous membranes of pleura pericardium peritoneum and tunica vaginalis.