Pathology of congenital bromine deficit (experimental observation)
Zhavoronkov, A.A.; Kakturskiĭ, L.V.; Anke, M.; Groppel', B.; Mikhaleva, L.M.
Arkhiv Patologii 58(2): 62-67
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-1955 PMID: 8712945 Document Number: 461018
Pathology of congenital bromine deficiency is described in a she-goat whose mother was kept for two years on a bromine deficient diet. Anomalies of the bones and joints of the anterior limbs, disturbances of carbohydrate, lipid and mineral metabolism in the form of liver, kidney and lymph nodes glycogenosis, liver fat degeneration, haemosiderosis of the liver, spleen and lungs were found. Moderate thymomegaly with hyperplasia of the cortex and an increase in the number of Hassal bodies, microcystic ovary transformation, adrenal adenomatosis, cheilitis, flossitis, focal proliferative extracapillary glomerulonephritis were also observed.