A 9-year-old intact male Brazilian Mastiff dog with a 1-year history of progressive severe swelling in all four limbs and significant locomotory difficulty was euthanized due to unresponsiveness to medical management. Macroscopically, the distal phalanx of the 5 digit of the left hindlimb was replaced by a cutaneous, non-ulcerated, 3.0 cm diameter, multilobulated, black, firm nodule.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA sediment core was sampled in an urban lake in southern Brazil, and the presence of 27 trace elements was assessed. The geochronology showed that the core corresponds to the period from 1914 to 2012. Accumulation of metals and the level of pollution was measured by the geoaccumulation index (I) and enrichment factor (EF).
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