INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 1

Urethral Prolapse and its Surgical management in a Dog

  • Author:
  • B. C. Das1, R. Jayaprakash2, R. Suresh Kumar3
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 125 to 126

1Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chittagong, Bangladesh

2Professor

3Professor and Head

Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology Madras Veterinary College Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University Madhavaram Milk Colony Chennai-600007 (Tamil Nadu)

Online published on 31 August, 2012.

Abstract

The present case represents the successful management of urethral prolapse in a bull dog. A uncastrated bull dog was presented with the history of intermittent blood dripping from prepuce and licking the preputial orifice. Thorough physical and clinical examination revealed a small reddened mass on the tip of the penis and diagnosed it was a case of urethral prolapse. Further radiographic examination revealed no metastatic lesions in the lung and no abnormality in kidney, urinary bladder and prostate gland. Surgically it was corrected and dog recovered unevenfully without any postoperative complications.

Keywords

Bulldog, Preputial orifice, Urethral prolapse