Evaluation of the healing process in medial septum fenestration of the guttural pouch in the horse

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Armen Thomassian
Maria Carla Zinezi Collepicolo
Carlos Alberto Hussni
José Luiz de Mello Nicoletti
Ana Liz Garcia Alves
Rosana Maria de Oliveira Clark

Abstract

The guttural pouch tympany is characterized by a painless distension of the parotid region, frequently severe enough to displace the pharynx and trachea and to compress the contralateral guttural pouch. In timpanites of the guttural pouches, surgical access is achieved through Viborg's triangle, an attempt to establish a communication between the affected and the normal guttural pouches through a fenestration in the medium wall between them. The objective of this study was to observe the time necessary from the incision to produce the fenestration until the complete healing, as well as the post-surgical scarring phenomena such as evolution of local reactions, formation of granulation tissue, neovascularization, scarring degree along time, and to observe the formation or not of interguttural stoma.

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THOMASSIAN, A.; COLLEPICOLO, M. C. Z.; HUSSNI, C. A.; NICOLETTI, J. L. DE M.; ALVES, A. L. G.; CLARK, R. M. DE O. Evaluation of the healing process in medial septum fenestration of the guttural pouch in the horse. Revista de Educação Continuada em Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, v. 4, n. 1, p. 08-18, 1 Jan. 2001.
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LARGE AND MEDIUM ANIMALS