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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2008 | Volume: 11 | Issue: 11 | Page No.: 1477-1481
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D. Mohajeri

A. Rezaie

Gh. Mousavi

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An Abattoir Study on Hepatic Tumors of Sheep

D. Mohajeri
Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University-Tabriz Branch, Iran
A. Rezaie
Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University-Tabriz Branch, Iran
Gh. Mousavi
Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University-Tabriz Branch, Iran
The aim of the present study was to assess the incidence and age distribution of hepatic tumors of sheep as well as study of their histopathologic characteristics. For this purpose, 3000 slaughtered sheep, consisting of 284 rams with approximate age of 7 to 20 months and 2716 ewes with approximate age of 3 to 7 years, were inspected during a routine postmortem examination. This study was conducted at Tabriz abattoir in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran, in a course of 8 months from March to November 2006. In this survey, two livers were encountered tumoral. Representative sections of the tumors were stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Gross and microscopic features of these tumors supported diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocellular carcinoma for a seven-years-old crossbreed ewe and a five-years-old native breed ewe respectively. In this survey, 0.074% of slaughtered ewes had hepatic neoplasia. That is, the prevalence of hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocellular carcinoma in aged ewes was equally 0.037% in this study.
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