Histopathological effects of Appendectomy on rabbit liver

Abstract

Inorder to detect the effect of excision the appendex on histological structure of rabbit Liver. This study was done in the field of poultry at the department of Animal resource / college of Agriculture / university of Tikrit for the period from 10/1/2014 until 1/6/2014, and the results showed significant changes in the histological structure consisted changes were the shape and size of Liver cells and appearance of focal agregation of lymphocytes distributed among hepatic cells in portal areas and around central veins as well as fibrosis the Liver and infiltration of white boold cells, including phagocytic cells in the interstitial tissue with the emergence of an increase in the thickness of the epithelium of gall bladder ducts and presence many of Kupffer cells in the sinusoids.