TY - JOUR ID - 5715 TI - Pathological and anatomical abnormalities affecting buffalo cows reproductive tracts in Mosul JO - Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences JA - IJVS LA - en SN - 1607-3894 AU - H. Lazim, E. AU - J. Ali, A. AU - I. Azawi, O. AD - Y1 - 2008 PY - 2008 VL - 22 IS - 2 SP - 59 EP - 67 DO - 10.33899/ijvs.2008.5715 N2 - A study was conducted to assess the type and prevalence of abnormalities occurring in the female reproductive tracts of 405 buffalo cows slaughtered at Mosul abattoir. Out of the 405 buffalo genital tracts examined, various abnormalities with different degrees of severity were observed in 216 (53.3%) of cases. Twenty two (5.4%) were pregnant and the remaining 41.2% (167/405) were macroscopically normal. The most common abnormalities encountered were endometritis 50 (12.3%), ovarobursal adhesions 26 (6.4%) and hydrosalpinx 20 (4.9%). Other abnormalities recorded were follicular cyst, luteal cyst, cystic corpus luteum, paraovarian cyst, ovarian sarcoma, inactive ovaries, senility anestrous, pyosalpinx, hemosalpinx, obstruction of oviduct, salpingitis, double oviduct, hydrometra, mucometra, pyometra, permetritis, parametritis, uterine edema, perimetrial adhesions, parametrial adhesions, parauterine abscess and uterine tumor. Histopathological examinations in this study revealed that reproductive tract lesions seem to be an important problem with possible subsequent infertility and sterility in buffalo cows leading to animals slaughtered. UR - https://www.vetmedmosul.com/article_5715.html L1 - https://www.vetmedmosul.com/article_5715_26ecfbc79c2c0d32a77011f85c620b20.pdf ER -