Avaliação das principais lesões testiculares de felinos adultos atendidos no Hospital Veterinário da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Vinícius Wagner
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFU
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/24709
• topic: Histopatologia; Histopathology; Reprodução; Reproduction; Felídeos; Felids; Patologia; Pathology; Degeneração; Degeneration; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::MEDICINA VETERINARIA::PATOLOGIA ANIMAL

With increasing of domestic animals longevity many areas of study are incorporated into veterinary science. And become important as it results in the quality of animal life, as in the case of study in reproductive system. This study was done to obtain many information on the prevalence of testicular lesions in cats with noun breed definition in Uberlândia-MG. The testicles samples of 25 animals were collected in the Population Control Program of Pets by the surgical sterilization method of the Veterinary Hospital of the Federal University of Uberlândia. After separation of the testes from their respective epididymides, it was evaluated for their length, width, height, volume and testicular mass. This material was processed and histological slides were made in order to evaluate the main testicular lesions such as: hypoplasia, degeneration, orchitis atrophy and neoplasias. Degeneration was the most frequent lesion in the studied testicles followed by interstitial fibrosis and atrophy. Regarding the classification of intensity the discrete prevailed. In relation to the macroscopic evaluation, it was observed that the right testicles were more affected by pathologies than the contralateral ones in the samples analyzed.