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Pig Journal Volume: 57
Publication date: May 2006

Proceedings Section

OESOPHAGEAL MUSCULAR HYPERPLASIA AND HYPERTROPHY: A RESPONSE TO CARDIAL STENOSIS CAUSED BY PARAKERATOSIS AND ULCERATION
C. Featherstone, R. Reichel, C. Gaudie and S.H. Done

Abstract
Two cases of distal oesophageal muscular hypertrophy, causing vomiting and subsequent culling through poor body condition, are described. Attention to the food intake and stress factors has prevented further cases.
The abnormality of gastric filling seems to have predisposed to secondary infection with helicobacter and salmonellae.

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