SOME OBSERVATIONS ON GOAT TUMOURS 1- CUTANEOUS PAPILLOMAS ON THE UDDER 2- VAGINAL CYSTIC FIBROADENOMA

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Neoplasms of the mammary glands, uterus and vagina are very rare in farm animals (STANNARD and PULLEY, 1978). Very few literature is available on udder papillomas in goats. DAVIS and KEMPER (1936) and SASTRY (1959) described cutaneous warts on the head, face, shoulder, neck and upper parts of the fore limbs, but not on the teats and udder in a herd of Saanen goats. In another herd of the same breed, MOUTTON (1954) reported papillomas limited to the teats and udder. Fibropapillomas and the transmissible venereal tumours were described in cattle and dogs respectively (JONES and HUNT, 1983). No records about tumours of the uterus, vagina in goats had been found in the available literature.
In the present investigation, two types of tumours were recorded in goats, treated surgically and were described pathologically.