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Periódicos Brasileiros em Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia

p. 489-491

Diprosopia em bovino

Rotta, I. TTorres, M. B. A. MMotta, R. G

This work describes a malformation in one newborn female bovine, with two faces and two skull fused, showing one single head. Duplications of the nasal and oral structures, tetraofthalmy, two brains, one single cerebellum, and pons were observed. The right thyroid was hypertrophic and the other organs had normal morphology. Every change observed in this case was compatibles with diprosopus.(AU)

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