Gross Pathology of Cattle- GI Flashcards

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Two conditions to think of with lack of tooth eruption

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  1. Osteopetrosis (Red Angus calves)
  2. X-linked Ectodermal Dysplasia (will also lack hair)
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Ddx for neoplasm at tip of mandible

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  1. Ossifying fibroma
  2. Ameloblastic odontoma
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Cause of gingivitis and mucositis, necroulcerative

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Fusobacterium necrophorum

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Occasional viral cause of ulcerative gingivitis (around teeth)

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Bovine pestivirus- mucosal disease (BVD)

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Genetic defect leading to mucosal and epithelial ulcerations due to friction

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Epitheliogenesis imperfecta- defect in laminin V

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Differentials for lingual ulcerations

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  1. Mucosal disease (BVD; bovine pestivirus)
  2. Malignant catarrhal fever (ovine-herpesvirus 2)
  3. Vesicular diseases
  4. Epitheliogenesis imperfecta
  5. Rinderpest (bovine morbillivirus)
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Gross lesions in adults with bovine aphthovirus

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Vesicle formation in oral cavity and feet followed by ulceration

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Cause of necrotic laryngitis in calves

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Calf diptheria (fusobacterium necrophorum)

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Predisposing factors to calf diptheria

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Trauma
IBR
Papular stomatitis virus

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Cause of wooden tongue

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Actinobacillus ligneresii

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Morph for wooden tongue

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Granulomatous glossitis

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What causes lumpy jaw?

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Actinomyces bovis

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What causes lumpy jaw in kangaroos?

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Fusobacterium bovis

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Morph for lumpy jaw

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Osteomyelitis, granulomatous

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Oral tumors that can invade bone

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Fibrosarcoma
Lymphoma
Nasal adenocarcinoma

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Term for cleft palate

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Palatoschisis

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Classic lesions with mucosal disease (BVD)

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Coalescing ulcers that begin on posterior hard palate and extend across
or ulceration in esophagus

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Cause of pock-like lesions on soft palate, in pharynx, and gingiva around teeth

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Parapoxvirus- Bovine Papular Stomatitis

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Morph for parapoxvirus

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Multifocal to coalescing necrotizing and proliferative stomatitis

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Esophageal parasite (2)

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Gonglyonema pulchrum (red ribbon)
Hypoderma linneatum- migration of gadfly larvae

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Cause of papillomas in GI

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Bovine papillomavirus-4

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Cause of ruminal hyperkeratosis

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Young age, not on roughage
Vitamin A deficiency
High barley in diet
Chloronated naphthalene

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How does milk bypass the rumen in calves?

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Ruminoreticular groove

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What does bovine herpesvirus 1 (IBR) cause in the forestomachs?

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Ulceration and mucosal loss

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Which forestomach is not lined by squamous epithelium?
Abomasum
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Gross findings with Malignant Catarrhal Fever
NOT mucosal disease Nasal exudate and corneal edema Hemorrhage and ulceration throughout GI tract
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Ruminal flukes
Paramphistomum cervi
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Cause of tremendous hemorrhage on outside of rumen
Bovine pestivirus (BVD)
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A tumor in the esophagus/rumen could be (2)
Fibropapilloma If exposed to ptaquiloside from bracken fern, becomes SCC
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How to identify omasum
Small papillae and leaves
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How to identify the abomasum
Characteristic folds without papillae
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Abomasal mucosal hyperplasia and hypertrophy (Moroccan leather) with mucous (catarrhal) without inflammation
Ostertagus ostertagi
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What causes thickened abomasal folds
BLV with abomasal lymphoma
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What causes edematous baggy abomasal folds
Severe parasite infection- hypoproteinemia (Haemonchus contortus)
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What are the differentials for Peyer's patch necrosis?
Bovine pestivirus- BVD (mucosal disease) Bovine morbillivirus- Rinderpest Acute salmonellosis Bovine adenovirus type 10 (endotheliotropic)
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Cause of yellow discoloration of ileum (fibrinonecrotic membrane; necrotizing enteritis)
Non-host adapted Salmonella typhimurium (no septicemia) Note: Salmonella dublin is host adapted so causes septicemia
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What causes hemorrhagic enterocolitis
Coccidiosis- Eimeria auburnensis and Eimeria alabamanensis
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What entity causes Johne's Disease?
Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis
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Disease course of Johne's disease
Animals are infected in first 30 days, but no signs until 2-5 years old; causes rugose pattern in mucosa of gut; causes dystrophic mineralization
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What causes neonatal bloody scours because they lack trypsin?
Clostridium perfringens type C
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Small intestinal parasite
Oesophagostamum radiatum
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Causes of fibrinonecrotic membrane in the colon (2)
Salmonellosis Mucosal disease
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Causes of fat necrosis (yellow fat that becomes hard)
Fat cattle Japanese black cattle (genetic) Fescue with neotyphodium (fungus) Yellow fat is normal finding in Jerseys and Guernseys
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