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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5
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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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9
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Predisposing factors to calf diptheria

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Trauma
IBR
Papular stomatitis virus

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10
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Cause of wooden tongue

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Actinobacillus ligneresii

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11
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Morph for wooden tongue

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Granulomatous glossitis

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12
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What causes lumpy jaw?

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Actinomyces bovis

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13
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What causes lumpy jaw in kangaroos?

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Fusobacterium bovis

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14
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Morph for lumpy jaw

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Osteomyelitis, granulomatous

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15
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Oral tumors that can invade bone

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Fibrosarcoma
Lymphoma
Nasal adenocarcinoma

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16
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Term for cleft palate

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Palatoschisis

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17
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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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18
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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

19
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Morph for parapoxvirus

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Multifocal to coalescing necrotizing and proliferative stomatitis

20
Q

Esophageal parasite (2)

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

21
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Cause of papillomas in GI

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Bovine papillomavirus-4

22
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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

23
Q

How does milk bypass the rumen in calves?

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Ruminoreticular groove

24
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What does bovine herpesvirus 1 (IBR) cause in the forestomachs?

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Ulceration and mucosal loss

25
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Which forestomach is not lined by squamous epithelium?

A

Abomasum

26
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Gross findings with Malignant Catarrhal Fever

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NOT mucosal disease
Nasal exudate and corneal edema
Hemorrhage and ulceration throughout GI tract

26
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Ruminal flukes

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Paramphistomum cervi

27
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Cause of tremendous hemorrhage on outside of rumen

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Bovine pestivirus (BVD)

28
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A tumor in the esophagus/rumen could be (2)

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Fibropapilloma
If exposed to ptaquiloside from bracken fern, becomes SCC

29
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How to identify omasum

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Small papillae and leaves

30
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How to identify the abomasum

A

Characteristic folds without papillae

31
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Abomasal mucosal hyperplasia and hypertrophy (Moroccan leather) with mucous (catarrhal) without inflammation

A

Ostertagus ostertagi

32
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What causes thickened abomasal folds

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BLV with abomasal lymphoma

33
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What causes edematous baggy abomasal folds

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Severe parasite infection- hypoproteinemia (Haemonchus contortus)

34
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What are the differentials for Peyer’s patch necrosis?

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Bovine pestivirus- BVD (mucosal disease)
Bovine morbillivirus- Rinderpest
Acute salmonellosis
Bovine adenovirus type 10 (endotheliotropic)

35
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Cause of yellow discoloration of ileum (fibrinonecrotic membrane; necrotizing enteritis)

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Non-host adapted Salmonella typhimurium (no septicemia)

Note: Salmonella dublin is host adapted so causes septicemia

36
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What causes hemorrhagic enterocolitis

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Coccidiosis- Eimeria auburnensis and Eimeria alabamanensis

37
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What entity causes Johne’s Disease?

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Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis

38
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Disease course of Johne’s disease

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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

39
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What causes neonatal bloody scours because they lack trypsin?

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Clostridium perfringens type C

40
Q

Small intestinal parasite

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Oesophagostamum radiatum

41
Q

Causes of fibrinonecrotic membrane in the colon (2)

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Salmonellosis
Mucosal disease

42
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Causes of fat necrosis (yellow fat that becomes hard)

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Fat cattle
Japanese black cattle (genetic)
Fescue with neotyphodium (fungus)
Yellow fat is normal finding in Jerseys and Guernseys

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