The report by McCarthy and coworkers (McCarthy et al. 2021) in this issue describes a case of vaginal septum with pyometra in a 10-week-old Westphalian filly foal. This is an interesting case report which evokes thought about the developmental abnormalities of the caudal female reproductive and urogenital tracts and their pathophysiology. Such anomalies are rare, reflected by the limited number of cases reported in the literature involving mares/fillies with uterine, cervical, vaginal and hymenal abnormalities.

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女性尾部生殖道异常

McCarthy 及其同事 在本期中的报告（McCarthy等人， 2021 年）描述了一个 10 周大的威斯特伐利亚小马驹阴道隔膜与子宫蓄脓的病例。这是一个有趣的病例报告，它唤起了人们对尾部女性生殖道和泌尿生殖道的发育异常及其病理生理学的思考。这种异常情况很少见，这反映在文献中报告的涉及子宫、宫颈、阴道和处女膜异常的母马/母马的病例数量有限。