INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 2

Surgical Repair of Mandibular Fracture in a Newborn Calf

  • Author:
  • Sridhar Remala, S Bhaskara RamaRaju Sagi, Srinivas Yeturi
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 273 to 275

State Institute of Animal Health (SIAH), Department of Animal Husbandry, Tanuku-534211 (Andhra Pradesh)

*Corresponding author. E-mail: srirema32@gmail.com

Online published on 18 April, 2018.

Abstract

Present communication reports successful surgical correction of bilateral fracture of horizontal ramus of mandible at the interdental space in a five day old calf, caused by traction of calf during dystocia. The fracture was repaired with intramedullary pinning and hemicerclage wiring.

Keywords

Calf, fracture, mandible, surgery