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 Volume 22 (4):300-303, 2018.


Unilateral agenesis of uterine horn in swine – case report

 

Matheus Camargos de Britto Rosa1 (DMV), Rafael Pedroso Betarelli1 (DMV), Juliano Vogas Peixoto1 (DMV), Joăo Chrysostomo de Resende Júnior1 (DMV),

 Eduardo Maurício Mendes de Lima2 (DMV), André Rodrigues da Cunha Barreto-Vianna*1 (DMV), Gregório Correa Guimaraes1 (DMV).

 

1Departamento de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Minas Gerais, Brazil. 2Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), ICC Sul, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Cx. Postal 4508, Brasília, DF 70910-970. e-mail: andre.vianna@dmv.ufla.br

 

ABSTRACT

 

Britto Rosa MC, Betarelli RP, Peixoto JV, Resende Júnior JC, Lima EMM,  Cunha Barreto-Vianna AR. Guimaraes GC., Unilateral agenesis of uterine horn in swine – case report, Onl J Vet Res., 22 (4):300-303, 2018. Congenital anomalies of the uterus in pigs are uncommon. Among these, there is unilateral uterine horn agenesis, defined as an alteration of the fetal formation that results in the non-development of the paramesonephric or Müller ducts. It is associated with recessive genes and is considered a hereditary alteration. The objective of this work was to report a case of unilateral uterine horn agenesis in pigs resulting from crossbreeding between the Landrace and Large White breeds. The absence of a uterine horn in pigs does not make the animal infertile, contrary to what may occur in cattle, but with the presence of only one horn the number of piglets born is smaller, thus jeopardizing the reproductive efficiency of the female.

 

Keywords: Unicorn uterus; Congenital malformation; Müller duct; Sus scrofa.


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