The use of laparoscopy as a diagnostic tool in canine intra-peritoneal

One to two cm (keyhole) skin incision was made to insert a 5-mm trocar within the abdomen through which a rigid, 300 oblique telescope was introduced to visualize the abdominal cavity after establishing standard (10–12 mm/Hg) capnoperitoneum conditions. Thirty-three clinical cases referred with ailments involving peritoneal cavity were subjected to laparoscopic examination after routine clinical examination and investigation. Intestinal torsion, intestinal intussusception, intestinal adhesion, intestinal impaction (faecolith), intestinal foreign body, mummified foetus, polycystic ovarian and uterine growth, persistent corpus luteum, spleenomegaly, splenic abscess, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatomegaly, liposarcoma of liver, bridging fibrosis of liver etc were diagnosed by laparoscopic examination. Biopsy of the diseased organs confirmed different pathological conditions.