INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 1

Surgical management of aural haematoma in a buffalo calf

  • Author:
  • Raj Kumari Vishwakarma
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 74 to 75

Veterinary Hospital, Department of Animal Husbandry, Naya Gaon Pelio, Dehradun-248007 (Uttarakhand)

*Veterinary Officer and Corresponding author. E-mail: rajkumari.vet@gmail.com

Online published on 5 November, 2018.

Abstract

A Murrah buffalo calf was presented with complaint of discomfort, swelling of right ear flap and head shaking. On physical examination, a soft fluctuating swelling was noticed on the medial side of right ear diagnosed as aural haematoma and decided for surgical drainage. The calf was anaesthetized and drainage was undertaken with a S shape long incision. There was no complication noticed during post-surgical period and sutures were removed on twelveth day post-surgery. Animal recovered uneventfully.

Keywords

Aural, buffalo, haematoma, surgical drainage