INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 1

Intraoral Approach for Retrieval of Fish Hook from Flapshell Turtle (Lissemys punctata)

  • Author:
  • T.B. Sivanarayanan, Rekha Pathak, P. Sangeetha
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 178 to 179

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

*Corresponding author E-mail: sivasivu@gmail.com

Online published on 4 September, 2014.

Abstract

An Indian flapshell turtle was presented with an entangled fish hook. Physical examination and radiograph gave a definite clue about the position of fish hook and was successfully retrieved surgically through an intraoral approach.

Keywords

Fish hook, Indian Flapshell turtle, intraoral approach, oesophagus