INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 2

Congenital Accessory Tongue and its Surgical Removal in a Calf

  • Author:
  • Jayakrushna Das, Snehasis Pradhan, Srinivas Sathapathy1
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 553 to 554

1Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Histology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar-751003, Odisha

Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar-751003, Odisha

*Corresponding author: E-mail: drjohndasjajpur@yahoo.co.in

Online published on 26 July, 2017.

Abstract

A fifteen days old calf was presented with an accessory tongue. It was ligated at the base and excised from the site. Congenital malformations of tongue are rare and an accessory tongue is extremely uncommon.

Keywords

Accessory, calf, tongue