INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 2

Surgical Management of Cervical Tumour in a Cow

  • Author:
  • Swagat Panda1, Sidhartha Sankar Behera2, Sadananda Nayak
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 447 to 448

1Veterinary Officer, Mobile Veterinary Unit, Balisankara, Sundargarh, Odisha

2Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology

Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar-751003 (Odisha)

*Corresponding author. E-mail: prof_snayak@yahoo.co.in

Online published on 18 April, 2018.

Abstract

The communication describes cervical leiomyoma diagnosed at the time of parturition in an indigenous cow. The tumor was removed surgically and the size and weight of tumor mass was 18 cm x 14 cm x 9.5 cm and 1.5 kg respectively. Tumor was solid, nearly rectangular in shape, well circumscribed, brownish coloured and encapsulated. Histopathologically, the tumor was diagnosed as leiomyoma.

Keywords

Cervix, indigenous cow, leiomyoma