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01-10-2012 | Original Article

Duplicated lower intestinal tract in a commercial broiler chicken with polypodia

Authors: Majid Gholami Ahangaran, Shahrzad Azizi, Mehrdad Yadegari, Mohammad Maghooli, Mohammad Reza Hajimirzaei

Published in: Comparative Clinical Pathology | Issue 5/2012

Abstract

Developmental anomalies in domestic fowl are rare, and few reports are present in veterinary literature. This study describes polypodia and lower intestinal duplication in a commercial broiler chicken. Apparently, the chicken had a short extra leg with two digits. In necropsy, below the Meckle’s diverticulum, the ileum was divided to the normal and abnormal branches. A unilateral cecum was attached to abnormal part of ileum, and the rectum was as a dilated blind sac without connection to the exterior end or abdominal wall of the chicken. Histological findings showed that the basic organization of intestinal wall was similar to that in other parts of the normal intestine. No other abnormality was observed in this case.

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Title: Duplicated lower intestinal tract in a commercial broiler chicken with polypodia
Authors: Majid Gholami Ahangaran
Shahrzad Azizi
Mehrdad Yadegari
Mohammad Maghooli
Mohammad Reza Hajimirzaei
Publication date: 01-10-2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Comparative Clinical Pathology / Issue 5/2012
Print ISSN: 1618-5641
Electronic ISSN: 1618-565X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00580-011-1184-9

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