1Professor and Head, Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex
Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari-396 450 (Gujarat)
2Professor and Head, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology
3Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology
4Assistant Professor, Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex
5Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathology, Vanbandhu College of Veterinary Science and A.H.
6Veterinary Officer, Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex;
Ten cross-bred cows aged 3–7 years were presented with the history of anorexia, depression, cessation of defecation and colic signs. Clinically all the animals were dull with varying degrees of abdominal distension. Per-rectal examination revealed empty rectum and presence of sausage-shaped firm mass cranial to pelvis in all the animals. Trans-rectal ultrasonography using 6.5 MHz probe revealed bull's eye sign with distended caudal loops. Enterectomy followed by enteroanastomosis by single layer Cushing suture technique using chromic cat gut No. 2/0 in standing animals through right flank laparotomy under para-vertebral nerve block gave excellent results in all the cases.
Cross-bred cow, Enteroanastomosis, Intussusception
