| mycoplasmosis associated perosis type skeletal deformity in a saker falcon nestling in hungary. | a wild, 3-wk-old saker falcon (falco cherrug) nestling showing uncoordinated movements and a perosis type tarsometatarsus deformity was found abandoned; it was euthanized a week later on 29 may 1997 after an unsuccessful attempt to rehabilitate it. gross pathological findings included congestion of parenchymal organs and a lateral bowing of the left tarsometatarsal bone. histopathology revealed initial interstitial hepatitis, focal catarrhal pneumonia, and dyschondroplasia in the epiphysis of th ... | 1999 | 10479097 |