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Year 2018 - Volume 38, Number 11
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Skin burn and ocular damage by calcium oxide (virgin lime) in swines, 38(11):2088-2091
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ABSTRACT.- Macêdo J.T.S.A., Ferreira Júnior J.A., Nascimento K.A., Lacerda M.S.C., Pereira N.E.S. & Pedroso P.M.O. 2018. Skin burn and ocular damage by calcium oxide (virgin lime) in swines. [Queimadura de pele e lesão ocular por óxido de cálcio (cal virgem) em suínos.] Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 38(11):2088-2091. Laboratório de Patologia Veterinária, Fundação Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Via L4 Norte s
, Brasília, DF 70910-970, Brazil. E-mail: pedrosovet@yahoo.com.br
An outbreak of skin burn and ocular damage by calcium oxide in swines is reported. The outbreak occurred in a rural property located in the municipality of Iuiu, Western Bahia, during the transport of 60 pigs from a recreation farm to a fattening farm. The observed macroscopic lesions were erythematous areas; formation of papules, vesicles, and in some cases, there was the formation of firm, parched, high brown plaques and in other cases detachment and loss of skin. His eyes were dull. Histological analysis of the skin revealed areas of necrosis of focally extensive clotting of the epidermis, and dermis, delimited in the paniculus, by cellular debris and rare neutrophils. Corneal necrosis with perforated ulcer formation, superficial epithelial necrosis, edema, and neutrophil infiltration of the cornea adjacent to the ulcer were revealed in the eye.
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