New surgical approach to the plantar fetlock joint through the digital flexor tendon sheath wall and suspensory ligament apparatus in cases of concurrent septic synovitis in two cattle

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 370-375

  Kofler, Jonathan ^a   Martinek, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arthrotomy; Cattle; Digital flexor tendon sheath; Fetlock joint; Suspensory ligament

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; POLYURETHAN FOAM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CATTLE DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONVALESCENCE; FIBRIN CLOT; FLEXOR TENDON; HINDLIMB; INCISION; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; JOINT CAPSULE; JOINT SURGERY; LAVAGE; LIGAMENT; NONHUMAN; PENETRATING TRAUMA; SEPSIS; SESAMOID BONE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENOSYNOVITIS; WOUND CLOSURE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MALE; TARSAL JOINTS; TENDONS; TENOSYNOVITIS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 17444423265     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2004.07.009     Document Type: Article

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