Radiographic and histological evidence of metabolic bone disease in gliding leaf frogs (Agalychnis spurrelli).

摘要: Bone alterations due to metabolic bone disease in captive animal populations can have a negative impact on repopulation and research initiatives. This investigation has the purpose of describing principal radiographic anatomopathological findings present nine gliding leaf frogs (Agalychnis spurrelli) kept captivity with their spines long bones. The observed histopathological were canalis vertebralis, paraspinal muscle bones, included deformed bones alteration adjacent tissues, ossification process, degeneration resorption, decreased number osteocytes deposition osteoid fibrous material compact tissue. Additionally, spinal cord showed compressed white matter, chronic meningitis duramater, glial cells loss delimitation between gray matter. Radiographical changes found mainly moth-eaten osteolysis, solid periosteal reaction, deformities, cortical tunneling inflammation soft tissues. Also, pathological fractures femur urostyle together column deviations increased density.