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

Epoxy-Pin Fixation for Management of Tarsometarsus Fracture in a Sarus crane

  • Author:
  • H. P. Aithal, Jasmeet Singh1,, P. Kinjavdekar, Amarpal
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 469 to 472

1Department of Surgery and Radiology, C.V.Sc., OUAT, Bhubaneswar

Division of Surgery, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly - 243122 (Uttar Pradesh)

*Corresponding Author E-mail: vet_jasmeetsingh@rediffmail.com

Online published on 19 March, 2013.

Abstract

The present clinical case describes about surgical management of a compound fracture of proximal third of left tarsometatarsus in a Sarus crane (Grus antigone). The technique of epoxy pin fixation was found to be easy in application and led to early healing of the fractured segment in the avian patient.

Keywords

Epoxy pin, external skeletal fixation, fracture, tarsometatarsus