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Resection of the common digital extensor tendon in a gelding
T M Booth1, P D Clegg, E R Singer
1Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences and Animal Husbandry, University of Liverpool, South Wirral.
The Veterinary Record
|May 10, 2000
Abstract:
A four-year-old gelding was lame owing to a chronic septic common digital extensor tendon and sheath. The horse had been treated by open surgical lavage but the sepsis had recurred after three months. Physical, ultrasonographic, cytological and histological examinations confirmed chronic septic tenosynovitis and tendonitis. The entire intrathecal component of the common digital extensor tendon was resected under general anaesthesia and the synovial lining of the sheath was ablated. Postoperatively the horse regained good limb function and became sound.