INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 2

Femoral Fracture and its Surgical Management using Intramedullary Pinning in a Dog

  • Author:
  • S.K. Tiwari, Deepak Kumar Kashyap, R. Sharda
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 422 to 423

Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Anjora, Durg -491001 (Chattisgarh)

*Corresponding Author E-mail: tiwari_sk62@yahoo.com

Online published on 19 March, 2013.

Abstract

A German shepherd dog aged 6 years suffered from femoral fracture. The dog was operated under Xylazine-Ketamine anaesthesia. Retrograde intramedullary pinning was done using Steinmann's pin. The dog had an uneventful recovery in 7 weeks.

Keywords

Dog, femur, intramedullary pinning