The Gastrointestinal Tract - Clinical Cases - Small Animal Surgery

This new book on veterinary surgery focuses on the gastrointestinal tract and accessory organs of digestion in small animals. Its educational approach, through the description of 30 surgical cases, provides the reader with a better understanding when it comes to perform surgeries in dogs and cats with gastrointestinal disorders. Both simple cases and more complex ones are addressed, covering a wide range of situations that the veterinary surgeon may be faced with in the practice. For each case, the authors include the case history, the physical examination, the surgical preparation and technique, as well as additional considerations and tips when necessary.

Table of Contents:

1. Cases involving the oral cavity and pharynx

Lip neoplasia

Zygomatic gland mucocoele

Linear foreign body entrapped under the tongue in a cat

Severe facial trauma

Cricopharyngeal achalasia

Glossectomy

Transverse glossectomy

Wedge glossectomy

2. Cases involving the thoracic oesophagus

Oesophageal foreign body in a dog

Linear foreign body in a cat

Combined technique for removal of a foreign body

Megaoesophagus

Hiatal hernia

3. Cases involving the digestive organs in the abdomen

Stomach foreign body

Canine acute gastric dilatation-volvulus

Y-U pyloroplasty

Chemical peritonitis due to traumatic rupture of the pancreas

Mesenteric torsion

Duodenal foreign body

Extrahepatic shunt

Multiple extrahepatic shunts and intrahepatic shunt

Biliary peritonitis associated with extrahepatic biliary rupture

Biliary mucocoele

Rupture of the gallbladder

Gallbladder lithiasis

Caecal neoplasia

Splenic torsion

4. Techniques applied in gastrointestinal disorders

Mouth examination

Oesophagostomy tube placement for feeding (E-tube)

Jejunostomy tube placement for feeding (J-tube)