INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 1

Surgical Management of Polymelia in a Purebred calf

  • Author:
  • Rayees Ahmad1, Vandana Sangwan2,, S.P.S. Saini3, Anubhav Khurana1
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 81 to 82

1Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana-141004, Punjab

2Assistant Professor, Department of TVCC, College of Veterinary Science Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana-141004, Punjab

3Post Graduate Scholar, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana-141004, Punjab

Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana-141004, Punjab

*Corresponding author. E-mail: drvandanasangwan@rediffmail.com

Online published on 2 August, 2016.

Abstract

The report describes successful surgical treatment of polymelia in a Sahiwal calf. Such congenital limb deformities should be surgically resected in an early age before the proper bone development starts. Surgical correction improves quality and cosmetic life of the animal.

Keywords

Calf; congenital; polymelia; surgical