"A Widely Applicable Model": Teaching Sarah Manguso's The Two Kinds of Decay Across Institutions.

Many of those teaching at the intersection of medicine and the humanities are siloed within institutional spaces. This essay recounts the teaching of Sarah Manguso's The Two Kinds of Decay to students across different academic contexts and considers what we can learn when we put classrooms in conversation with each other. This essay argues for the value of texts like Manguso's, which explicitly hold the narrating subject and form of illness narrative up for critical examination.

Disseminated coelomic xanthogranulomatosis in eclectus parrots () and budgerigars ().

Xanthogranulomatosis is an inflammatory lesion characterized by lipid-containing macrophages, extracellular lipid, hemorrhage, and necrosis. We describe disseminated intracoelomic xanthogranulomatosis in 5 eclectus parrots () and 2 budgerigars (). Postmortem, clinicopathologic, and historical case material was reviewed.

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY OF CUTANEOUS MYIASIS IN AN ORNATE BOX TURTLE ().

A juvenile intact female ornate box turtle () was referred for evaluation of right-sided appendicular swelling that was nonresponsive to antimicrobial therapy. Computed tomography (CT) revealed severe soft tissue swelling of the limbs and neck, with multiple associated tortuous gas-filled sinus tracts extending from the cutaneous surface, which contained oblong soft tissue attenuating structures. These CT findings were most consistent with migrating dipterous larvae.

Disseminated pancreatic adenocarcinoma in an eclectus parrot ().

Case Description: A 15-year-old 0.412-kg (0.906-lb) sexually intact male eclectus parrot () was evaluated because its owners found it lethargic and dyspneic at the bottom of its cage.

Imaging features of disseminated xanthogranulomatous inflammation in eclectus parrots (Eclectus roratus).

Xanthogranulomatous disease is a rare condition, which can be caused by infection, inflammation, hemorrhage, immunologic disease, or inherited lysosomal disorders. It is characterized by non-intracellular lipid and cholesterol deposits among an inflammatory infiltrate of vacuolated macrophages and giant cells. The diagnosis of xanthogranulomatous disease is challenging, with nonspecific imaging findings often misinterpreted as aggressive neoplastic processes in humans.