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

Therapeutic Management of Suppurative Wounds in an Asiatic Elephant (Elephus maximus)

  • Author:
  • B. Justin William1, H. Pushkin Raj, Capt. G.D. Rao
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 161 to 163

1Professor and Corresponding author

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

Online published on 31 August, 2012.

Abstract

Successful treatment of non healing suppurative cavity in a thirty five years old intact female Asiatic elephant (Elephus maximus) weighing around three and a half tonnes with tetrachlorodecaoxide solution was reported.

Keywords

Elephant, Non healing wound, Suppurative wound, Tetrachlorodecaoxide solution