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A 40-year old female chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) developed hyporexia, weight loss, followed by progressive and complete blindness. Tomography demonstrated an intracranial mass in the rostroventral brain involving the optic chiasm, with a presumptive diagnosis of neoplasm. However, histopathology revealed a granulomatous meningoencephalitis, and tissue samples tested positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Doenças dos Símios Antropoides , Cegueira , Meningoencefalite , Mycobacterium tuberculosis , Pan troglodytes , Animais , Feminino , Doenças dos Símios Antropoides/diagnóstico , Doenças dos Símios Antropoides/microbiologia , Doenças dos Símios Antropoides/patologia , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/isolamento & purificação , Cegueira/veterinária , Cegueira/etiologia , Cegueira/microbiologia , Cegueira/diagnóstico , Meningoencefalite/veterinária , Meningoencefalite/microbiologia , Meningoencefalite/diagnóstico , Granuloma/veterinária , Granuloma/microbiologia , Granuloma/patologia , Granuloma/diagnóstico , Tuberculose/veterinária , Tuberculose/diagnóstico , Tuberculose/complicaçõesRESUMO
Chylothorax is the accumulation of lymph in the thoracic cavity, and it has never been reported in neotropical primates. An emperor tamarin died and at necropsy chylothorax associated with pulmonary compressive atelectasis was diagnosed. Idiopathic chylothorax can be a cause of respiratory insufficiency and death in tamarins.
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Quilotórax , Atelectasia Pulmonar , Animais , Quilotórax/diagnóstico , Quilotórax/etiologia , Quilotórax/veterinária , Saguinus , Pulmão , Atelectasia Pulmonar/etiologia , Atelectasia Pulmonar/veterináriaRESUMO
Polyarteritis nodosa is an idiopathic necrotizing vasculitis that affects small to medium-sized arteries. We describe a case of polyarteritis nodosa in a captive common wooly monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha) associated with transmural intestinal necrosis and secondary peritonitis. This condition must be considered for differential diagnosis of segmental arteritis in neotropical primates.