Ovarian neoplasms in dromedary camel: Prevalence, types and pathology Elshazly M.O., El-Rahman Sahar S. Abd, Hamza Dalia A1, Ali Merhan E. Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt 1Department of Zoonosis, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt *email: saharsamirmah@cu.edu.eg
Online published on 30 January, 2020. Abstract The objective of this study was to investigate the incidence of ovarian tumours in camels and to identify their common types. A total of 500 non-pregnant dromedary camels’ ovaries aged between 6–15 years old were collected from Giza abattoirs during the period of January 2016 to January 2018 and were examined for the presence of any neoplasm. Tissue specimens were taken from all of the collected ovaries for histopathological examination. A total of 34 (6.8%) camels were found with neoplastic lesions included; papillary cystadenoma (0.6%), fibroadenoma (0.2%), granulosa cell tumour (1.2%), luteoma (0.8%), thecoma and luteinised thecoma (0.4%), fibrothecoma (0.4%), teratoma (2%), fibroma (1.6%), cavernous haemangioma (0.4%) and mixed tumours (0.6%). In conclusion, teratoma was the most common type of ovarian tumour followed by granulosa cell tumour, luteoma, fibroma, cavernous haemangioma, fibrothecoma, thecoma and luteinised thecoma, while fibroadenoma was the least observed neoplasm. Top Keywords Dromedary camel, histopathology, neoplasms, ovary. Top |