Department of Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana-141004 (Punjab)
1 Corresponding Author email: jmohindroo@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 24 January, 2012.
Two male Labrador pups were presented with a history of sudden episodes of coughing, retching and difficult respiration with episodes of cyanosis and syncope in one dog. Multiple lateral radiographs revealed mobile foreign body in one dog which migrated from cervical trachea to the carina on repeated exposures. In the other dog, the foreign body was lodged in the cervical trachea near the hyoid apparatus. Surgical retrieval of the foreign bodies in both the pups was done under general anaesthesia. In one dog stone and in the other dog a Jojoba Seed was retrieved upon tracheotomy. Both dogs recovered uneventfully post surgery.
Foreign body, jojoba seed, stone, tracheal, tracheotomy
