A report on uterine leiomyoma in Nili Ravi buffalo

The basic aim of the present study was to report a rare clinical and histopathological condition of uterine leiomyoma in nilli ravi buffalo. a nine year old female buffalo with the history of repeat breeding and infertility was brought to sahala slaughter house,islamabad. clinical examination through rectal palpation determined the presence of large,firm painless swelling in the right uterine horn with no foul smelling discharge. this condition was suspected to be a tumor or third degree endometritis. during necropsy,gross uterine examination revealed a firm,multilobular,well vascularized tumoural mass with 15.4 cm diameter in size. histopathology of the tissue sections showed the characters of leiomyoma. as best of author's knowledge,this is the first report on uterine leiomyoma in nilli ravi buffalo that exposes another factor of the infertility. copyright © 2015 zoological society of pakistan.