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This weaner pig has non-pruritic lesions on the skin. What is the cause of this lesion?

Small, pellet-shaped portions of manure are seen behind a sow after farrowing. What is the cause of this condition?

Some damage to the teats is found when inspecting the udder of this sow. What is the cause?

A sow is seen with a firm mass in the mammary glands. What is this condition?

What is the name of this lesion in the bladder?

A finishing pig is found in the pen lying on one side and gasping for air, with skin discoloration and muscle tremors. What is the most likely cause of this problem?

Several growing and finishing pigs vomit after eating and gradually lose body condition. After a few days they are euthanized. The only gross post-mortem lesion is a megaesophagus. What is cause of this lesion in these pigs?

When a piglet was handed for blood testing, a lump was detected on its sternal area. What is this condition?

In the post-mortem of a gilt, some nodules are found in the chest cavity. What are they?

Ovaries obtained from a female fattening pig at the slaughterhouse. The ovary on the left side of the image is normal but the ovary on the right side and uterus have some abnormalities. What could be the cause?

Which of the following lesions do you see pictured?

We notice dark diarrhea in finishing hogs. What could cause this?

During meat inspection at the slaughterhouse, two globular masses were found in the ovarian insertion. After cutting the mass, its internal structure was similar to that of normal testicles. What is the name of this developmental abnormality?

Lesion found at slaughter in the kidney of a fattening pig. What is this pathology compatible with?

Red areas of cranioventral consolidation (hepatization) were detected in this lung at the slaughterhouse, suggesting enzootic pneumonia. What is the main agent associated with this condition?

Lung at the slaughterhouse with foam mixed with fluid. What is the most likely cause?

This suppuration was observed in the spinal column during the post-mortem slaughterhouse inspection of a pig carcass. What is it?

Pictured on the left is an uninjured tail from a finishing hog, and on the right side a tail that suffered tail biting. What is the most common cause of this problem?

Does the presence of this type of lesion always imply a disease problem?

In a pen of growing pigs that had stopped eating, this kind of feces is seen on the floor. What could be the cause?

This pig has an anomaly on its foot. Do you know what it is?

In the slaughterhouse inflammation of the parietal and visceral face of the pericardium was found in a finishing hog. What is the name of this lesion?

Litters that are 3 days old show vomiting and diarrhea that lasts two or three days. What could be the cause?

A pen of fattening pigs stopped eating and have lost body condition. This pig's perianal area is dirty. What could be the cause?

What could be the cause of this lesion?

What disease could cause those lesions?

What is the most probable etiology of this lesion?