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Ingluvolitos em periquito australiano: relato de caso

2015; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4322/rbcv.2015.312

ISSN

1984-7130

Autores

Liliane Rangel Nascimento, Evandro Alves Canelo, Lorena Leal Rodrigues, André Luíz Quagliatto Santos,

Tópico(s)

Animal Nutrition and Physiology

Resumo

The gastrointestinal tract of birds presents unique anatomy and physiology.The crop or chat, is a distension of the esophagus with function of storing food.Injuries and masses in these locations can occur for various reasons causing feeding difficulties and thinning of the bird.Food or foreign body impacted inside tract gatrintestinal can form the bezoars.Thus, the objective was reporting the occurrence of masses in crop in a budgerigar attended at the Veterinary Hospital of the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, and diagnosed as phytobezoar or ingluvoliths after necropsy examination and evaluation of the mass found.

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